Administrative culture in Turkey and its impact on the development of local governments

SUMMARY In historical process, applications about administration follows a process which has affected one subsequent stage, but every stage has subjective discriminated attribute. Because, cultural factor and structure can transform into each other, as interaction, with time. In developing process of administration cultural of Turkey, Ottoman Empire has took on functions, as aimed to serving social needs. While it made these functions, administrative style and formed organization style also put them general administrative character. In the period Tanzimat, administrative character relied on the unity understanding of state So general power had looked developments, which lead local government, as weakness. Consequently, It benefited from applications, which seemed as local government's, for strengthening central government. It was possible that local governments had formal status in Tanzimat period. In this period, opening external world, feeling need to put fiscal centralization and especially press on Ottoman government by external states, efforts saving this condition owing to success of made reforms basing on people were reasons which underline forming local governments. Tanzimat period, in modern sense, relied on centralism and constructed its institutions on centralism. Nevertheless, institutions of modern local government was fertilized in this period, too. Republic of Turkey took over this understanding from this period. In character of state's organization and its ideological, above-mentioned centralism has been seen. In centralism comprehension related to activities of economic and social, improving services better is more effective in technical reasons than politic reasons. In this period, it didn't appropriate sttengthening local government, civil formation and authority turn. X