@article{2019,title={MUKHTAR RACES WITH PROMISES AND SLOGANS: BROCHURE ANALYSIS OF LOCAL ELECTIONS 2019},abstractNode={Mukhtarship is one of the few institutions transferred from the Ottoman Empire to the present. Neighborhood and village administration is the first institution that comes to mind when it comes to the chairman and the council of elders are still subject to academic and political debates but they remain important. The assessments of muhtars in academia and in the political world are divided into two.One of them is that muhtars are no longer needed because of the central administration of the muhtars, and the local e-government tasks of the local administrations through the "e- municipality" applications. the other is that it is an important institution that ensures the contact of the neighborhood with the central and local administrations, listening to the demands of the neighborhood and transferring them to the relevant institutions and acting as an agent that ensures the contact between the citizens and the state in this context. Improving the personal rights of mukhtars and the special importance given to the mukhtars by the Presidency have recently made the mukhtar attractive and there has been a significant increase in the number of mukhtar candidates in the 2019 local government elections. This increase exacerbated the mukhtar race and led the mukhtar candidates to search for various materials to reach their voters. Candidate promotional brochures, which are among these materials, are the most important selection material explaining the candidates and their projects to the voters. The mukhtar candidates wrote in the brochures they prepared before the elections and asked what they would do for the neighborhood they were running for and they asked the voters to vote with the slogans they developed. In the examination of the brochures, it is seen that many slogans are very ambitious and the promises are the jobs that fall within the scope of local administrations rather than the field of mukhtars. },author={Murat SEZİK},year={2019},journal={Turkish Studies-Social Sciences}}