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In this study, the changes that are meticulously demanded and structured particularly by the IMF, the World Bank and the European Union are studied in the context of the ‘reform in the State’ in the case of the "Malatya Municipality". In this study, I also analyzed how the IMF, the World Bank and the European Union’s demands, under the influence of big capitalists, who, in their neoliberal mentality, opted for legal arrangements that could reach the remote parts in the underdeveloped countries, affected and changed the municipalities via the changes in the law of municipality. While during the 1970s, the paradigm of a social municipality was dominant, with the 1980s a new paradigm of municipality emerged that operated according to market conditions. As a result of this paradigm, the delivery of services has been privatized, the Municipal Economic Enterprises have been established, and the need for partial municipal borrowing was carried out through the banks that operated under market conditions, and not through the Bank of Provinces. Thus, the debt control of municipalities was taken out of the body of the central government. The municipality of Malatya joined the ranks of market-led public institutions by implementing these practices. In spite of the neo-liberal approach of the Malatya municipality, it also engages in practices of social municipality. Although this may at first seem as a conflict, it differentiates our country from the neo-liberal policies in other countries. For this reason, social support programs and social assistance activities of the Malatya municipality for the poor are also covered in the study.

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