Local politics and representation in Turkey: Model of İstanbul

Democracy is a tool which guarantees minority rights as possible as majority rights, tries to overcome socialine quality and adopts the society's participation to public affairs. Democracy should represent the society. In democratic regimes, representation includes the balance between society and representatives. In other words, aldermena rerepresentatives who vote dandelected by society which includes different classes and communities. Efficiency and effectiveness can raise with close relationship between repsentatives and voters. Age, gender, education and profession are the keypoints of representation. Local mechanisms are developing in consideration of science and technology. New institutions are establishing to attract people to incorporate them to the system and to provide the local development. The purpose of this analyze is that democracy and representation terms are detailed in the base of local government. Avcılar and Basaksehir Municipality's local council members, number of members, their genders, educational, age, professions, commision decisions and appealsto BIMER are compared.