otoriteler

Otoriteler is a Turkish term for authorities: the bodies and persons that hold formal power to create, implement, and enforce rules within a state, organization, or community. This includes government ministries and agencies, law enforcement and judiciary, regulatory bodies, and other public institutions, as well as officials who exercise delegated power.

In public administration and political science, otoriteler are examined as components of governance and power distribution. They derive legitimacy from constitutional or statutory authority or from electoral mandate, and their actions are guided by laws, procedures, and accountability mechanisms. The distinction between central and local otoriteler, and between independent and subordinate agencies, is often important for understanding governance and state capacity.

The term is also used in discussions of centralized rule or authoritarian governance, where a limited set of otoriteler may exercise broad, sometimes unchecked, power. In such contexts, debates focus on oversight, transparency, civil liberties, and the risks of power concentration.

Etymology: otorite (authority) is a Turkish loan from the French autorité, ultimately from Latin auctoritas. The plural is otoriteler.

See also: authority; government; state; governance; bureaucracy; authoritarianism.