Abstract:

Special Provincial Administrations are the local public agencies that have about 150 year background. For first time, they are included Turkish administration system with the 1864 Provincial Regulation by adopting French Provincial System as a model. These agencies which continued their activities based on the regulations up to 1913 obtained the status of public legal personality with the enactment of the law called The Law of Temporary Special Provincial Administration with date 1913, however, they were quite functional in their early period, they lost their functionality after 1950s. These agencies, particularly in the villages and rural areas where there aren’t municipalities, have been providing economic, commercial, social and agricultural services needed by local people. Therefore, it can be said that Special Provincial Administrations, which were non-functional before the new law 5302 was enacted, both adopted to implement strategic plan and were transformed more active and functional. Thus, in this context, in the paper, first Special Provincial Administrations, strategic management and plans will be explained in theory, then some of selected Special Provincial Administrations’ strategic plans will be studied in detail, finally, by determining the goals established for the rural areas development in these plans, it will be anlysed how Special Provincial Administrations became active and functional after the new law 5302 had entered into in force.

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