ABSTRACT
The roots of the Turkish administration system and its problems, as well as administrative reform efforts, can be traced back to the last century of the Ottoman Empire. The reforms to enhance the administrative system during the last century of the Ottoman Empire were maintained after the establishment of the Turkish Republic in the form of the modernization, Westernization and reformation of the obsolete remnants of the Ottoman administrative structure. After the Second World War, the reports prepared by the foreign specialists provided important guidance to the wave of reforms. With the initiation of the centralized planning in the 1960s, attempts at reforms in Turkish public administration were intensified. TODAIE (the Public Administration Institute for Turkey and Middle East) and DPT (the State Planning Agency) played a decisive role in these reform efforts as demonstrated through the official five-year development plans prepared by DPT and the reports for the reform of the public administration in Turkey prepared by TODAIE. Nonetheless, many of these reform initiatives had remained incomplete and unrealized (Memiúoğlu 2006; Taúdan and Gül 2013, 114-124).
