Yönetim ve Ekonomi Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol.17, no.1, pp.1-21, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Enabling the use of regional resources and including local actors in policy making processes areintegral components of the sustainable development paradigm. Thus, the view that RegionalDevelopment Agencies would mitigate the adoption of sustainable development practices becameevident. In this study, implementation of the sustainable development policies via development agencieswill be examined. A method which is used towards this aim is to analyze studies which are related to thesubject and discussing. As a result of these discussions, it has been seen that, while some targets havealready turned into reality, Turkey still has a long road ahead in terms of attaining sustainabledevelopment at the regional level.