Özet:

Public legal personality is a concept on which the discipline of law still has not reached a consensus. The concept, which consists of the combination of individual and legal person elements in the legal system, has come to the fore with the modern state structure, but there are still discussions about its criteria. Many public services carried out by foundations in the pre-modern period became the services provided by the state with the modern state structure, and this service expansion and diversity necessitated the formation of different types of public legal entities. Legal entities are entities that are independent of the founding persons, which have rights and competencies similar to real persons. In the study, which was prepared by using the literature review, the development of the concept of public legal entity in the Ottoman state administration was tried to be discussed. It is clear that formation processes need to be examined in order to understand administration and institutional structures. In the study, which was prepared with the argument that it is important to determine the developments in the Ottoman Empire in order to understand the public legal personality, which is one of the administrative and legal concepts in the Republican period in Turkey, the developments related to the subject starting from the Tanzimat Period until the collapse of the state were tried to be revealed. It is understood that these structures, the infrastructure of which was prepared with the establishment of the modern state structure and almost the entirety of the 19th century, went through a preparatory process in a sense, although it is accepted that they existed in different forms before the modern period, they achieved their closest form to today's understanding thanks to the arrangements made at the beginning of the 20th century.

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