Custodian period social municipality practices in Safranbolu Municipality

The understanding of social municipalism, which emerged as a requirement of the social state understanding, is a management understanding that accepts that not only central administrations but also local administrations are responsible for the services to be provided to individuals. The understanding of social municipalism aiming to produce projects that will improve the socio-cultural aspects and increase the welfare level of the municipality in addition to the classical municipal the classical municipal services (such as social assistance, trips, theater, cinema, festivals, skill courses, etc.) is developed after the year 1990 in Turkey. Today, the understanding of social municipalism has become a different management approach in the determination of the service quality of municipalities. Especially "Municipal Law No. 5393" with "Metropolitan Law No. 5216" and other relevant laws have given powers and duties to the municipalities to improve the social municipality side of municipalities. Thesis context, understanding of local administration, the development of local administration units (especially municipalities) in Turkey, powers and duties of the municipalities, the emergence of the concept of social municipality, development and legal aspects of social municipality in Turkey and in the world have been put forward. In addition, the custodians were appointed as trustees to the municipalities with in the scope of the state of emergency declared due to the coup attempt on 15 July 2016. In this context, Safranbolu Municipality was appointed as a custodian and Safranbolu Municipality became one of the custodians. The aim of thesis to reveal the social municipality understanding of Safranbolu Municipality (pre-custodian and post-custodian), which is a custodian municipality. Key Words: Trustee municipality; Safranbolu; Safranbolu Municipality; social state, social municipality