Büyükşehir Belediyelerinde Kırsal Mahalle: Kırsal Yerleşik Alan Uygulaması ve Bir Model Önerisi

As of 2014, villages in the provinces where metropolitan municipalities ruled in Turkey have been transformed into the status of neighborhood administration and the practice of providing services to rural settlements has been started by municipalities. Significant exceptions and exemptions had to be granted for five years in order to protect rural dwellers against local obligations. However, after the mentioned period, it was understood that the citizens living in rural settlements could not adapt to this administrative model economically. For this reason, the practice of making the discounts and exemptions granted to citizens living in rural settlements has been made indefinite. However, it has been seen that the criteria in the regulation regarding the determination of an administrative area as a rural neighborhood or a rural settlement are not sufficient and contain a subjective nature, and it has been understood that urban dwellers can also benefit from these rights, especially in places where rural and urban settled areas are integrated. Thus, in order to protect rural settlements, to benefit from the rights granted only to rural dwellers, and to sustain the financial structures and service quality of the administrations providing services to these places, it has become necessary to determine the content of the expression “and similar matters” in the relevant legislation, which gives discretion to the administrations, in an objective way. For this purpose, it is aimed to determine new criteria to protect the interests of rural life and service providers by conducting a field research within the framework of the sample of Mezitli district of Mersin, where urban and rural settled areas are integrated, and to present a model proposal within the scope of this study.