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The success of public entities and state in general depends on transferring high policy documents, such as medium term programs, to the strategic plans and actions plans of those entities and implementing those plans effectively. Institutional performance and individual performance of public officers should be at sufficient levels so that public entities can achieve the goals and objectives set in their strategic plans and higher policy documents. Building an individual performance evaluation and management system to evaluate individual performance, evaluating the individual performance of public officers and using the results in proper fields are important for increasing the success of public entities and public officers. The practice of individual performance evaluation for maintaining the high performance of skilled personnel is implemented in some public entities in Turkey as well as in with many countries. This study aims to facilitate making future predictions by presenting the individual performance evaluation practices in the public management systems of other countries in comparison to the practices in Turkey. It examines the country examples from the pioneering countries in individual performance practices, namely the USA and the UK in the Anglo-Saxon tradition; Germany and France in continental European tradition; and the examples from the European Union (EU), where the individual performance evaluations of public officers are widespread practices. The experience obtained from the existing practices for evaluating the individual performance of public officers and the results of other country practices indicate that the use of individual performance evaluation is important, and that it is necessary to revisit the classification system in Law no. 657 along with the performance management system. For this purpose, this study presents a framework considering the lessons learned from other country practices and a comparative approach of the performance evaluation system, which is a significant need for Turkish public administration.