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Studies on the topic of with what kind of model big cities will be ruled have been conducted for a long time whether it be in world, or in Turkey. Different approaches were taken about this regard, various practices were done. What first comes to mind is big cities such as London, Paris, Toronto, Tokyo and Istanbul. It was observed that in the disputes on speculative approaches and practice models, two major axes are taken as base. The first axis is about on which scale will the services be efficient and fruitful, and the other is about on which scale local democracy will be performed. In this study, by analyzing the speculative discussions on the two axes mentioned above, which model is being taken as base on the regulations regarding big city managements in our country was decided. To determine this, the law no. 6360, which came out in November 2012 and inflicted changes on a number of laws aside from the Metropolitan Municipality Law no. 5216, and the regulations before that were the starting points. With the last regulation, vital changes in terms of presenting administrative, financial, political and public services took place in the Metropolitan system, and the number of Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey was raised up to 29, special provincial administrations were removed from these areas, villages and cities were turned into neighborhoods. The city Van, one of the 13 metropolitan municipalities to which this new structure will be applied, was chosen as the sample, also to which extents and how these changes affected Van were determined by tabulating the data concerning Van. Main purpose of the study is to determine fundamental aspects of the new Metropolitan system, to relay how the topic was handled in the public opinion and academes and to contribute to the discussions with a concrete sample

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