A Research on the Activities Carried out by Public Administration Units after the 06 February Earthquakes: The Case of Kahta

Abstract

In the context of this research, which was prepared in order to investigate the level of participation of the staff of the Kahta Youth and Sports District Directorate, which is one of the provincial organisations of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, in which activities they participated in after the 6 February earthquakes and the level of effect of the volunteer factor on this participation, literature information about the Turkish public administration and the Ministry of Youth and Sports was given first. In the next section, information about the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Kahta District Directorate is given. In the analysis part of the study, a questionnaire survey was conducted on the diversity of activities in which the staff of the Kahta District Directorate participated after the 6 February earthquakes, their level of volunteerism and their future expectations in an institutional sense. The research showed that the staff of the Kahta Youth and Sports District Directorate successfully fulfilled their role in public administration after the earthquake and provided a high level of participation in the urgent needs of society. The volunteer factor also played an important role in this participation.