İdlib bölgesinin özgür bırakılmış alanlarında kurulan yerel yönetim konseylerinin etkin işleyişi

The conflict in Syria continues for over six years now. On the 15th of March 2011, the regime met opponents' protests hardly in Deraa and this event has started the Syrian Civil War. Hundred of thousands Syrian died, millions have been injured, and millions forced to flee their homelands, millions of Syrian internally displaced. From the first days of Syrian Civil War, the idea of Local Administrative Councils emerged with high hopes as a way to bound up wounds, a new governance model in the liberated areas of Syria from regime forces. This new local governance model is expected to mobilize people at local level as democratic, civil and independent institutions which are responsible for management of daily public services in the absence of central government. However after six years of conflict, Local Administrative Councils failed to meet these expectations and realize the goals. Their existence as a local government model has been so far challenged in the brutal history of Syrian Civil War. Challenges before the Local Administrative Councils are still quite high in terms of achieving an independent, legitimate, accountable, democratic and effective governance model. The goal of this research is to shed light to the reasons behind the failures of the Local Administrative Councilsin the liberated areas – by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) -in the province of Idlib (northern part of Syria) on the basis of being a well-functioning, effective local governance model.In doing so, research applied deductive theory, content analysis and structural functional theory as method to analyze effectiveness of Local Administrative Councils in terms of satisfying local needs. A structural - functional point view of Local Councils therefore discussed to understand functionality of Local Councils as structures within the liberated areas of Syria.