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Being able to perform local services effectively and efficiently is actually the reason for the existence of units and institutions that provide services. The most important of these are the cities and their administrations, which are growing in parallel with the change and transformation in the world. For this reason, the development of municipal administrations in Turkey has always been on the agenda, especially in terms of metropolitan administrations. The main reason for this is the population mobility in cities and the increasing problems of big cities in almost every field. The subject of the study is to examine the historical development and transformation of metropolitan municipalities with large-scale urban area administrations in Turkey. The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the special management style (metropolitan municipality model) developed for urban area administrations with large populations and to make suggestions for future models. In the article, the current legal norms were analyzed in a historical process. In addition, the metropolitan management models adopted with the regulations enacted in this period were evaluated.

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