Abstract:

Rapid population growth and the acceleration of rural-urban migration has led to the emergence of metropolitan cities in Turkey. It has emerged as a need to create a new structure with a different approach in order to be able to cope with the specific problems of metropolitan cities. In order to respond to this need, Article 127 of the 1982 Constitution stipulated that "the law can bring about special forms of government for large settlement centers". In 1984, after the permit of the constitution "metropolitan municipalities" have been established in three major metropolitan cities with separate legal arrangements. Over time, this number became 16. In 2004, the Metropolitan Municipality Law was renewed. In 2012, with the Law No. 6360, the metropolitan municipal model underwent significant changes and the number increased to 30. In European countries, it appears that administrative structures were organized in new forms in the local governments, apart from the two-tier or traditional structure. In this context, it is known that metropolitan city governments are formed in Italy. In this study, the metropolitan municipality system of Turkey will be introduced, then the focus will be on Italian local government system. After the introduction of Italian local government system, the metropolitan municipalities in Turkey and the Italian metropolitan urban governments will be compared and analyzed by giving references to the tasks, organizational structure, financial resources, duties, and responsibilities.

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