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Comparing to the other governments Turkey’s local governments gain their present meaning later. Tanzimat reform era is the period when local governments have emerged in the modern sense. In unitary states, the duty of providing public goods and services is shared between centralized administrations and local governments. Wheras in Federal states, public goods and services are provided by the Federal state itself federated states and local governments. In many Western countries local governments have come out as non-governmental organisations. The history of local governments goes back to the middle ages. Their emergence and improvement in our country is distinctive. In Ottoman Empire, there were also units which had conducted local services however these units were specific inside Ottoman administrative system. As the emergence and development of local government in England is different from our country in terms of feature, currently these two systems have many differences. The aim of the study is handling the legal and organisational aspects of local governments as a comparison between England which has a long and deep rooted history of decentralization and Turkey. This study is a qualititative research based on a literature review. In this study, comparison is made.

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