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Manual On Good Administration Principles

CONCLUSION

State is an organisational entity existing in order to conduct the
A works that are beyond the capacity of the individual and to fulfil a
wide range of social needs. With this aspect, it is obliged to ensure that
individuals, who are the constituents of the State, live in better conditions
by facilitating their social life and not only to take measures in the fields
of national security, public order etc., but also to supervise that the public
services are provided to the beneficiaries effectively, efficiently and in an
easily accessible manner. However, it should not be assumed that while
conducting these activities, the administrative mechanisms will act only
in conformity with the legislative arrangements inasmuch as the terms
and results of the activities in question do not only manifest themselves
in the legal context; quite the contrary, they enure to the real life and have
important consequences for those concerned. In this respect, it is essential
for the public authority to comply with the rules known as the principles
of good administration, in all sorts of acts and actions, in addition to the
principles, procedures and responsibilities prescribed in legal texts.

With the period of change and transformation ongoing in the field of public
administration in our country in recent years, many legal and administrative
regulations have been adopted in order to internalise the principles of good
administration in the functioning of the public services. Especially, with the
referendum held in 2010, the same approach was adopted in the essence
of the right to appeal to the ombudsman, which is a right established
by the Constitution since it is aimed, with this right, to audit all sorts of
acts and actions as well as attitudes and behaviours of the administration
within the framework of legality and even in conformity with the principles
of good administration. Legal audit accompanied by the audit in terms of
legality and principles of good administration of the administrative acts will
contribute to increasing the quality of the services provided to the citizens,
creating an accountable administration and increasing the trust in the
public institutions.

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