National Center Secretary General Haluk Dural: Localization is an assassination of the central state

LOCALIZATION IS AN ASSASSINATION OF THE CENTRAL STATE - 1 

For a long time in our country, there has been intense propaganda regarding the transfer of some of the administrative and financial powers of the central government to local administrations, thereby claiming that participatory democracy will develop at the local level. Initiatives in this direction have been given significant leeway since the 1980 fascist military coup, and calls for "localization" are particularly embraced by the separatist Kurdish movement's parties, which constantly change their names. Localization is championed by those who are flagless and nested in associations, foundations, and agencies that are funded by foreign countries (intelligence agencies and affiliated institutions), and who persistently defend American theses in public opinion—theses that most violate concepts such as democracy, human rights, and freedoms. These groups, which are funded by foreign countries (intelligence agencies and affiliated institutions), are the ones pushing this agenda. turncoat leftists are also providing support. 

Are the efforts to transfer some of the administrative and financial powers of the central government to local administrations an innocent demand for the expansion of democracy? Or is there an imperial plan hidden in the background ? 

The final period of the Ottoman Empire 

In fact, attractive proposals presented to the citizens such as "strengthening local governments, decentralized and effective administration" are an imperialist trap aimed at weakening the central administration and dissolving nation-states. Our country has encountered this trap before. In our recent history, this issue was known as "adem-i The "decentralization" movement was heavily promoted by Prince Sabahattin[1], the grandson of Sultan Abdülmecit, who was known in his time as a British agent. In order to weaken the state structure of the Ottoman Empire, which was set to be partitioned in the approaching World War, he took the "Decentralization" program, which had been suggested to him by British intelligence, to the Young Turks in Paris, but it was not accepted and was rejected. Prince Sabahattin later used his program ideologically against the Committee of Union and Progress through the Ottoman Liberal Party, which was founded by liberals. 

When looking at the content of the past Decentralization program, it can be seen that the traces of the program are kept very much alive on the agenda even today, 100 years later. 

Prince Sabahaddin named his decentralization project the "General Life Reform," or "Government Organization Reform."

Prince Sabahaddin explained his project under 8 main headings: 

1- Local Governments, 2- Public Order, 3- Judiciary, 4- Ownership (Property), 5- Operation of National Wealth and Public Works Organization, 6- Education and Schools, 7- Finance, 8- Regulatory Committee. 

The program envisioned the restructuring of government institutions in these eight areas and, by abandoning centralism in these fields, transferring powers to local administrations (local governments) and transitioning to a provincial system. 

It was proposed as a remedy for salvation in an environment where the collapse of the late Ottoman period was taking place. Prince Sabahaddin's "decentralization" project, which included these principles, introduced a provincial system and advocated for the principle that local elements, rather than those sent from the center, should participate in administration and be more effective. This structure would accelerate the loss of the Ottoman Empire's remaining territories in Asia, following the loss of its lands in Europe, under the influence of foreign states. It would accelerate the slipping away of its Asian territories as well. At a time when many successive rebellions were emerging, and the Committee of Union and Progress administration, which was opposed to Prince Sabahaddin, was increasingly turning into a dictatorship and pursuing pro-German policies, this program, which British intelligence had Prince Sabahaddin write, aimed to weaken the Ottoman central administration during a period when the separatism (séparatisme) of Arab and Albanian opposition movements was clearly on display. The British this long-term program consisted solely of planning to reduce military casualties in the war to be fought against the Ottoman Empire, whose central power would be weakened during the approaching First World War... According to Prince Sabahaddin, the new administrative structure should have been as follows:

1- Local Governments: 

Administrations should not be organized in a way that distributes orders from the center to every part of the country, but rather by forming a competent and 

responsible "administrative board" (board of directors) for each designated task. This requires the fundamental problems of the country to be categorized according to their type, scope, nature, and importance. The management of all these tasks should be undertaken separately by the most capable boards located where those tasks are to be performed, with sufficient authority and the necessary tools. Local Administrations (Local Governments) should be autonomous in their own spheres of duty. In the formation of administrators for (governments), the practice of (nomadic civil servants) who have no necessary connection to local wealth and local development must be abandoned. Instead, an evolution toward established local forces that have a natural connection to local wealth and local development must take place. The participation of individuals who hold a respectable place in their private lives and who have risen, especially through their work in the production life, in local government must be ensured. It is essential that this principle be taken into account in the selection or appointment of citizens who will take on local issues. In this way, public life begins to gradually come under the rightful influence of the productive and independent individuals of private life, and the path to be followed in private life to transition to a private entrepreneurial (individualist) structure is also supported in the field of administration. As for the administrators who must be sent from the center (namely governors, district governors, sub-district directors), they should also be individuals who have proven their administrative abilities as much as possible and who have by striving to select individuals capable of grasping the responsibility of the assigned task, and ensuring that their positions are not changed frequently should be accepted as a rule. 

2- Law Enforcement: 

In order for law enforcement (security) forces to properly fulfill their duty of protecting the rights of the public against all kinds of attacks, security affairs must be included entirely among the responsibilities of local administrations. 

3- Judiciary: 

Judgeship is a duty that requires the highest level of responsibility. Responsibility is tied to an individual's independence. Whichever society nurtures the sense of responsibility that is the result of individual independence, justice in that society will prevail without the need for artificial measures. It is natural for administrators to emerge who will constantly provide for the need. In countries where the sense of responsibility is not nurtured, where one is forced to expect their future from the government, and where conscientious freedom falls below the anxiety of making a living, it has been made difficult to dismiss judges, who are nothing more than civil servants, in order to strengthen their sense of responsibility. In some countries, the justice system, which properly ensures the immunity of the law, relies on local administrators who have gained distinguished and robust freedom of conscience in their private lives and who provide security to those around them. Even today, there are local administrators in some parts of our country who could perform the duties of a judge. These individuals, for the resolution of limited and minor cases, can be temporarily appointed by the government as "peace judges." In this way, justice is dispensed on the spot, easily and rapidly, and the path to utilizing local administrators is already being taken. 

Judicial institutions must respond to the following needs: 

1- The judge being as close as possible to those expecting justice from them. 

2- Ensuring justice as quickly and as inexpensively as possible within the limits of available resources. 

For this reason, the principle even in judicial institutions should be to reform in a way that protects and defends the rights of the country and the citizens through courts organized according to local needs. 4- Acquisition (Property): 

In our country, property is owned to varying degrees by families or by the village population. This major issue, 

the issue of individuals owning their property, is of a breadth that exceeds administrative measures. For today, the temporary nature of the property issue... As for its solution: 

1- (Defter-i Hakani) The opening of branches in various parts of the country in a way that will provide the greatest convenience to land and property owners by the administrations. in various places.

2- The ownership of a property by individuals or the state must be made dependent on a (general registration) general census that will serve as records and solid documents - in order to be the basis for taxation. to be dependent on a (general registration) general census. 

The establishment and management of the boards that will record the form of writing and the census of these transactions must be given to a high board called the regulatory board (heyet-i tanzimiye). it is necessary to give it to a high board called the regulatory board (heyet-i tanzimiye). 

5- Operation of National Wealth and Public Works (Nafia) Organization: 

In the face of the development of private initiatives, government forces must adopt the most appropriate stance. In the exploitation of the country's wealth, even in public works (Nafia), private initiatives must be supported by the government. 

However, the fact that entrepreneurs encounter many obstacles instead of support and are forced to come all the way to the government offices at the center to resolve their problems results in the strengthening of habits of choosing fields of work in production as a means of livelihood. In addition to this, the efforts to be spent on exploiting the country's wealth take on a form that feeds not private enterprise, but perhaps the political currents at the center. 

In this situation, the possibility of simplifying government-related procedures regarding the utilization of forests, mines, and rivers, and the development of the country, and having these tasks performed by local government offices should be explored. 

As for public works projects that remain directly under the government's initiative, the broad powers that should be granted to local administrations should not be centralized in the provinces, but rather distributed appropriately among settlements according to their importance. 

6- Education and Schools: 

To meet the needs of today, instruction must be an aid to effective education that ensures the development of personality. The goal of education should not be to train civil servants for the government. On the contrary, educational institutions must prepare programs at every level of learning to respond to the various needs of business life, in order to raise effective and entrepreneurial youth who will be successful in private life through their own initiative. 

The goal in the management of schools should also be to secure the means and foundations to sustain themselves without remaining dependent on the government. to be able to find them. In other words, private schools should have content that will develop the various talents of Turkish youth through special programs. 

Instead of being a part of the state's administrative structure, schools should become assistants to families and the working life. 

To ensure both the development of schools based on local and familial needs and their suitability for the requirements of business life, it is necessary to transfer the establishment and management of all schools to local administrations, and in this way, to create a gradually developing harmony between the work of civil servants and local dignitaries, that is, heads of families and business owners. 7- Finance: 

Among the powers to be granted to local administrations, each province having its own budget and increasing transportation vehicles 

are essential. to facilitate economic change, within the limits to be determined by the central government, permission for local administrations to enter into production credit (production loan) agreements is granted. Organizing central and local administrations with these stated principles as the target will create the best-functioning and most development-oriented administrative boards, and their regular operation will ensure that the revenues that sustain administrations, namely taxes, develop in the most robust and fair manner. To accelerate this development, changes to be made in taxes must be based on practice, not theory. practice. 

8- Regulatory Committee (Heyet-i Tanzimiye): 

National problems inevitably show differences according to local and social conditions. In this case, the administration of every place by trying to fit everything into a single mold, the administration of provinces cannot be regulated with a general law that would prevent management from adapting to local needs. administration cannot be regulated. In order for local administrations to be organized in a way that suits the needs of settlements and operations, the current provinces must be divided into what we would call "regulation zones" (tanzim mıntıkaları) based on their natural and social conditions, where several provinces are accepted as a “zone” (region, province). And for each zone, a regulation board (heyet-i tanzimiye) must be established. must be established. By including some individuals from among the British elite to be recruited into state service, their regulatory expertise should be utilized by having them serve as consultants on these regulation boards. 

Laws regarding institutions and provincial administration should arise from the experience and examinations of regulatory boards, and these boards should continue their duties for a period after the regulatory work is completed, with the powers of a supervisory board.

Haluk Dural 

Secretary General of the National Center 

01.17.2025