Abstract
Rapid
population growth and the acceleration of rural-urban migration has led to the
emergence of metropolitan cities in Turkey. It has emerged as a need to create
a new structure with a different approach in order to be able to cope with the
specific problems of metropolitan cities. In order to respond to this need,
Article 127 of the 1982 Constitution stipulated that "the law can bring
about special forms of government for large settlement centers". In 1984,
after the permit of the constitution "metropolitan municipalities"
have been established in three major metropolitan cities with separate legal
arrangements. Over time, this number became 16. In 2004, the Metropolitan
Municipality Law was renewed. In 2012, with the Law No. 6360, the metropolitan
municipal model underwent significant changes and the number increased to 30.
In European countries, it appears that administrative structures were organized
in new forms in the local governments, apart from the two-tier or traditional
structure. In this context, it is known that metropolitan city governments are
formed in Italy. In this study, the metropolitan municipality system of Turkey
will be introduced, then the focus will be on Italian local government system.
After the introduction of Italian local government system, the metropolitan municipalities
in Turkey and the Italian metropolitan urban governments will be compared and
analyzed by giving references to the tasks, organizational structure, financial
resources, duties, and responsibilities.