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Turkish Journal of Public Administration

It is seen that the comprehensive studies have been made in the field of local governments in order to soften the structure of strict centrist organization in Turkey and to provide the efficiency in serving locally in the recent years. 6360 No. Act is the main of these studies. While the act expanded the metropolitan municipalities’ service area in the metropolitan cities as the city’s administrative border, it changed the villages as the neighborhood without legal entity. Moreover, in that process; while the municipalities are held responsible for the provincial administrative borders, it started to be questioned that the villages transfer their responsibles for the rural areas to the municipalities, the villages undertake the responsibility in the context of turning into the neighborhood and the neighborhood representative’s position changes compared to before. The view of neighborhood respresentatives with an impportant position in the government of rural areas about this issue has importance for this study. In this context, the legislation related to the situation of old villages/ new neighborhoods and to the government of neighborhood was examined with 6360 No. Act throughout the study and the situation of neighborhood representatives that was taken into a different situation as a neighborhood representative without the legal entity with 6360 No. Act while they had been the neighborhood representative of village with the legal entity was reviewed within the theoretical framework as specific to the study. After that, a survey method was implemented as one of the quantitative research techniques to these neighborhood representatives in the purpose of revealing how they think about the process that the settlements in village situation in the provinces which gained the status of Metropolitan Municipalities with 6360 No. Act turned into the neighborhood government and how they accept this process. It was determined at the end of the study that the neighborhood representatives have the different approaches/ viewpoints/ expectations on this process and the problems of old/new neighborhood representatives were determined from the point of interpretation of findings which were obtained, and it was contributed to the literature as the suggestions such as increasing the liberty, representation power at a certain level and providing the financial opportunities to the extent to provide an opportunity for the neighborhood representatives to adapt to this new situation were suggested in order that these problems are overcome. Moreover, the solution for problems was tried to be made with the suggestion of some changings in the relevant legislation in order that this old village/new neighborhood adapts to this new situation that it was formed after 6360 No. Act.

Türkiye de 6360 Sayılı Yasa Kapsamında Mahalle ve Köy Yönetiminde Yaşanan Değişim ve Dönüşüme Muhtarların Bakışı