Local democracy and participation for municipality: Example Beyli̇kdüzü

Applied as a model for local democracy and participation of the municipalities in our country, it has given a social dimension to democracy and bringing it back to a key point of the democratic process. This study aims to provide information about the provision of local democracy in practice and theory, the concept of "participation" by drawing attention to the relationship of direct emphasized the resulting matrix. Municipalities can be observed is the structuring of democracy as the most important public organization and the participation of local governments. Municipalities that have the function of representing the citizens' direct participation in the political, legal and historical process and has been affected by the current state of development of the various differences and acceleration. This study examined the concept of local democracy and participation in municipal Beylikdüzü Municipality become a significant private and dealt with in terms of the main underlying structure of the local democracy.