Local governments struggle against poverty-Eyup Municipality example

Turkey began with the industrial revolution world-wide phenomenon of urban poverty begins to make its presence felt in the 1950's. Migration from rural areas towards the city from the 1950's, and the horizontal social mobility in the city, along with the social, economic, and started the process of industrial transformation. This conversion process, especially in urban areas due to urbanization, industrialization too fast in front of the rapidly rising unemployment, the labor-intensive sector, on the other hand, the capital - intensive sector, then in the process of transition towards a knowledge-intensive industry can not find jobs for failing to provide the necessary adaptation of individuals deprived of a normal standard of living result of being born. This is caused by the transformation of skilled manpower to meet the demands of improving themselves through their own efforts to sustain the lives of the urban poor who lack the ability or became the object of informal employment, or attempted to solve these problems through informal sectors. With the phenomenon of globalization, the fight against urban poverty deepening and sharpening first and foremost obligation to the "welfare state " principle engendered a constitutional necessity. Initially, the task of the central government in the field of fight against poverty today has become one of the primary functions of municipalities. After the 1973 local elections, the CHP won mayoral positions in three major cities of socialist mayors, municipal applications, starting with the emphasis on the need to combat urban poverty debates and social municipality, the municipal reform of 2004 is one of the important demands. To combat poverty in the city earlier this struggle, selffulfillingmunicipalities after the reform of 2004 has become one of the main stakeholders. In this study, after the reform of 2004 the municipal authorities of municipalities in the fight against urban poverty, defined within the framework of the fight against urban poverty revealed by Eyüp Municipality policies are evaluated. Keywords: poverty, urban poverty, social, civic, to fight poverty.