Abstract
Districts and Amendments in Certain Laws and Decree Laws” was enacted. With the Law 6360,
a new management system has been included in the Turkish Local Management System, and the
metropolitan municipality model providing services in provincial territorial borders has been
adopted. Whit this law, changing the definition of metropolitan municipality, medium-sized cities
have also gained “Metropolitan Municipality” status. Whit the law, 13 new metropolitan
municipalities were established in 13 provinces. The implementation of provincial territorial
borders on the municipal services adopted for İstanbul and Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipalities
with former law 5216 has become effective for all metropolitan municipalities with the law 6360.
Thus, in terms of services there are no differences between rural and urban in metropolitan
municipalities and service area of metropolitan municipalities has become provincial territorial
borders. In this sense, this study mainly aims to analyze the topic of inner security services and
organization in the law 6360 comparing with the law 6638 in the point of sharing competence
and responsibility, centralization-localization, relations between central and local governments
in detail. It is known that a regulation with the law 6638 was made in 2015 to fill the legal and
administrative gap come out by the law 6360. The main problem of this study will be the status
of organization of gendarmerie in metropolitan municipalities in terms of rural-urban separation
for its responsibilities.