INVESTIGATION OF SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES TOWARDS PRIORITIZED DEVELOPMENT POLICIES IN THE ELEVENTH DEVELOPMENT PLAN: A SAMPLE APPLICATION IN TR72 REGION

This study aims to provide an overview of mainstream policies considered to be prioritized as goals for Turkey within the context of the eleventh development plan and proper development policies to be put into practice to achieve these goals. For this purpose, provincial local stakeholders meetings within the scope of the eleventh development plan were held in Kayseri, Sivas and Yozgat in February 2018, involving general, young and female participants who were asked to report the first five main topics they deem a priority for Turkey's development and select the two most important policies to be deployed under this title in a questionnaire. The eleventh development plan’s citizen questionnaire form prepared by T.C Ministry of Development was used as data collection tool in the survey. Frequency distributions of the obtained data were analyzed using cross tables and chi-square independence test. The analyzes performed according to the participants’ characteristics and provinces show that the most emphasized development policies were related to education, agriculture and rural development and democracy, justice and security policies. In addition to these three main points of development, energy, innovative and competitive production based on technology and employment are among the most important development priorities for Kayseri, Sivas, and Yozgat provinces respectively