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This research aimed to determine the relationship between the leadership style of principals and school culture related to the perceptions of primary school principals and teachers. The research used irregular layer sampling method. Principals (5 female and 45 male) and teachers (646 females and 304 males) in 50 primary schools in Izmir filled out the Personal Data Form and the Scales of School Principals' Leadership Styles and School Culture. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficients and t-test. The findings can be summarized as follows: Both school principals and teachers perceive that school principals exhibit more transformational style than transactional style. The school principals consider the school culture more positive than the teachers. According to the school principals, there is a positive relationship between the transformational leadership and the dimensions of co-operative culture; educational development and the social-educational culture aspects of the school culture; and the transactional leadership style and the educational development dimension of the school culture. According to the teachers, there is a positive relationship between the transformational leadership and the overall concept and dimensions of the school culture and the transactional leadership with the overall concept, co-operative culture, educational development culture and the dimensions of the social-educational culture.

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