Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Management, Economics, Business and Marketing (IAC-MEBM) Conference, Budapest, Macaristan, 17 - 18 Ağustos 2018, ss.199-206
Disaster is defined as sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or
society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses. Those losses exceed the community’s or
society’s ability to cope using its own resources. So, because of its unexpectable nature of disasters, communities'
or society's in need of precautionary approaches towards disasters. Duties such as estimation, struggle against
disasters related to minimize losses by reason of disasters are assigned to central and local governments. Also, civil
society and disaster volunteers have important roles by the help of donations in disaster areas. Turkey is a country
that can be faced with various risks, both located in the earthquake zone, as well as a country located in
geopolitically critical region. After Marmara Earthquake happened in 1999, Turkey had faced many losses by death
of 17.480 citizens, being injured of 23.781 citizens and 285.211 damaged building. Legislative regulations have
been into force quickly thereafter. In this study our aim is to examine disaster management within Republic of
Turkey's governmental financial system as of period after 1999 Marmara Earthquake.