Özet:

Turkey is a country that has been subjected to the disasters because of its geographical and climatic structure open to different natural situations like flooding, landslides and its geological structure open to earthquakes. Situations like fire, flood, traffic accidents arose from human factors are Turkey’s reality who has a population approaching 74 million. Therefore, being ready to these kind of disasters is primarily the responsibility of central administration and also local administrations. Konya has this responsibility as local administration by having geographically largest area among Turkey’s provinces and its Metropolitan character. Accordingly, to discuss the work of Konya Metropolitan Municipality's disaster management is a good sampling in the case of Turkey. In this study, Konya Metropolitan Municipality’s work on disaster management that are coordinated by the governor and examined alone by Konya Metropolitan Municipality will be analyzed.

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