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The purpose of this essay is to analyze the past and pressent local administration reforms and the system of municipal administration in Turkey. The ultimate aim of the research is to find out the main trends of administrative reforms in Turkey. This is a comparative study, which analyzes the laws and regulations regarding local administration. The information relevant to the subject has been obtained from a literature review. Administrative reforms, from the late Ottoman period to the present, have given people the right to participate in political and public affairs. Besides local social dynamics, central authority has played a major role in leading the reform movements. The main objective of reform movements is to improve local socio-economic conditions and maintain political satability of the country. Alhough central administration has carried out local administration reforms. municipalities have become prominent in local administration system. Nevertheless, it is a fact that this is the consequence of socio-economic development in Turkey. Because of the migration from rural to urban areas, urban population has increased; therefore, many cities have become larger. Thus growing cities have forced governments to establish metropolitan municipalities. As a result, there has been a growing political tendency in administrative decentralization. Although the central government holds the political power de jure and de facto, local administrative reforms have given the opportunity for municipalities to become relatively more independent from central government in Turkey

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