ABSTRACT
The coronavirus (COVID-19), which emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019, spread rapidly worldwide and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Turkey came face to face with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that swept the world on March 11, 2020;a scientific committee was formed quickly and took the necessary precautions. On the other hand, the general elections of local administrations held on March 31, 2019, were concluded, and the newly elected mayors and councils started their duties. Mayors prepared the strategic plan for the period of 2020-2024 on the one hand, and the investment and performance program for the first term, 2020, and their budgets on the other hand, and started to implement them on January 01, 2020, after the approval of the council. In this study, the issue of budget expenditures has investigated how much four different metropolitan municipalities in Turkey and four regions of Turkey are struggling with the disaster (covid-19 pandemic). As a result, the economic and social struggles of metropolitan municipalities in Turkey in such disaster situations, which can be considered extraordinary, are revealed with the results of budget expenditures. © 2022 Peter Lang AG. All rights reserved.