An assessment of local services provided to the rural districts in metropolitan municipalities: The case of Kumru district at Ordu province

Following the principle of that special administrative bodies could be formed for larger settlements come into force by 1982's Constitution, metropolitan municipalities are instituted at Istanbul Ankara and Izmir consecutively at 1984. Through years, the number of metropolitan municipalities has risen and with the enactment of Metropolitan Municipality Law 5216, metropolitan governments have become efficacious local centers. With the Law No. 6360 accepted at 2012 and its primary articles put into force by 2014 Local Government Elections, the number of metropolitan municipalities updated to the 30; -by legally changing their personalities- villages and townships were turned into the settlements and new form of government model has enacted wherein municipalities have served within the boundaries of whole urban and rural areas. As of the year 2020, the rural neighborhood and rural settled area application model will also be in effect, making some exemptions and reductions offered to rural regions in permanent. But now that governments are shifting to a more model-based approach to providing services to rural areas, it's vital to assess the previous applications against the newly-instituted ones. The goals of this research are to assess the benefits and drawbacks of using the provincial boundary application in terms of rural neighborhood's mukhtars and municipalities, to compare the previous and existing applications, and to identify what needs to be done to improve the current model. Within the scope of the study and based on the research questions regarding to the subject, the qualitative method was conducted performing semi-structured in-depth interviews those of with Ordu Metropolitan Municipality, Kumru Municipality, and neighborhood mukhtars in rural areas.