Abstract:

Turkey and Greece, which have first joined the NATO in the 1950s and became associate members of the European Economic Community, have established a central planning organization and have begun to prepare five-year development plans in an effort to ensure the efficient use of the country’s sources and quicken its development, to carry out the economic, social and cultural development in a planned manner, to prepare long-term development plans along with the annual plans and to monitor their practice. However, Greece which became a full member of the EEC in 1981, carried out comprehensive reforms on its Regional Policies and Structural Tools in order to take advantage of the funding given by the EU and has also abandoned central planning in favour of supporting regional elements in its legislations. Being a candidate country in 1999 and began to implement pre-accession strategy, Turkey, like Greece did previously, began to apply new regionalization supporting process such as ensuring the EU statistical system to comply with NUTS categories, establishing Development Agencies, preparing pre-National Development Plan and implementing the EU supported regional development plans with the effect of the EU in the field of regional policy. In this study, by taking into account the legal and institutional transformations that were made in Greece, it is aimed at analyzing the possible structural and institutional arrangements that are occurring and can be occured in Turkey

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