Non-govermental organizations and civil society in Kütahya

This study discusses non-governmental organizations (NGO) which is one of the important factors of the economic, political and social events, happened after the1980 period on Kütahya basis. In Kütahya NGOs means as an important actor to develop better understanding of civil society. In Kütahya after 1990 period number of NGOs has increased considerably, and with the bulletins they have issued and the activites they have done so far, they helped a better understanding of NGO and changed peoples mind . It has been observed that new NGOs have been set up primarily on education, culture, religion, social aids, sports and environment, and number of their members have increased. In this study NGOs points of view to the European Union, to goverment, human rights and democracy.. Their understanding of these concept in their minds, structural stiuation of civil understanding and civil conscious have been tried to be determined. During these studies it has appeared that with their increasing number of members and activities, they have been accepted by the society, and civil activities in every part part of social life, human rights, the European Union and democracy are inseparable elements of life. Civil conscious have been adopted and internalized. In this study history , population , socio economic structure of Kütahya has been taken into consideration. The achived data has showed that Kütahya has a proper structure for improvement of civil conscious.