**2. Importance of the study**

deserves attention of local governments. It is known that youngsters have a very important place for local governments beyond being essential for the state and the society at large. City councils can be founded to earn the youngsters and use their potential, and their opinions can be evaluated in the projects under the umbrella of a platform open to the opinions of young people. This will also make possible to evaluate the strategy which will be developed as regards the city in the most broad-based manner. When city councils are founded and put into implementation, they will take place as an essential part of participation at local level [10]. Efforts on the participation of the mentioned youngsters argue that participation takes place in three formats, namely individual, collective, and official [11]. For this reason, as participation occurs in three dimensions, desires and wishes of individuals are more easily answered by local governments. In other words, in the face of the expectations, the problems and the difficulties, the local authorities can react instantly to the problems. Also, it is important how people can access local governments in such situations. In addition to the principal roles of local governments, it can be accepted that expectations of people from local governments can change depending on the space and different problems can occur. For example, taking into consideration that Famagusta is a coastal town, local people can expect from local government that services in water sports will be increased; people of another town which is not located on the coast will not have such an expectation from local government. In addition, from the facts that Famagusta has a multi-cultural university and has a closed area under military control, Famagusta youngsters have different expectations and problems; lack of sufficient activity centers, being an historical town and relevant problems

As mentioned above, taking into consideration that every society has a unique social structure, it can be said that Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) also has a unique structure. Geographical location, neighboring countries, interacted societies and/or historical process, past wards are important factors for a society to develop a unique identity. In this context, it can be said that these factors have great importance in the formation of TRNC's present identity. In other words, considering historical process, it can be claimed that TRNC passed through several stages before reaching its present structure, and both positive and negative processes emerged within past political, economic, and social changes. It is observed that this situation triggers hopelessness especially among youngsters. In this context, it can be said that ensuring that youngsters grow and develop in integrity as a part of their society where they feel healthy and happy is essential. Especially, local governments can play role in eliminating the exclusion tendencies caused by ethnic, religious, political, age, gender, etc. differences among citizens. The exclusion eliminates by improving their belonging feelings, increasing their awareness and participation. "Social exclusion and participation of young people is seen as two opposite concepts and it is emphasised that social inclusion policies cannot become successful unless participation of young people is ensured" [12] as some groups are seen as disadvantaged due to their race, economics status, minority status or social status. Young people are accepted as one of the disadvantaged groups by the United Nations, and participation is emphasized [13]. They form a privileged group for which all local and central mechanisms are given responsibility for improving and increasing their participation. It is expected that the

are different from other regions.

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The foundation of the future of a country is its youth. For this reason, it is necessary that the problems, expectations, and needs of young people are identified and their perspectives for today and the future are determined.

Taking into consideration the past events in Cyprus and today's solution or deadlock situation, knowing how young people are affected and their readiness levels are important in terms of regulations and services that will be developed by institutions and agencies, researchers, and experts in the future. Especially in the peace process, the administrators and educators in the schools have very important roles. Considering the expectations and needs of the young people, it is important that the education programs should be reconsidered and arranged; thus, educators and the school administrators should provide services by taking these into consideration. In addition, literature search showed that such a study has not been conducted in the island before, as a result of which it is expected that the data to be obtained will shed light to the future services. It is thought that the data obtained will give a sense of the services they will give to the education administrators and school administrators.

Working group of the research was attended by 36 young people (10 women and 26 men) who

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Through semi-structured focus group interviews, participants of the study were asked their expectations from the city, where and how they saw themselves in the developing world, what kind of social projects they could develop in cooperation with the local government, how they evaluated their spare time, what kind of problems they experienced, in case of a possible agreement, to what extent they were ready to the opening of Kapalı Maraş, and what was their readiness and expectations for a solution. The answers they have to these questions

For validation of the research, opinions from five experts were obtained on the legitimacy and suitability of prepared questions. In line with the received opinions, necessary corrections and changes were made and the questions were given their final shape. In addition, under-

Internal reliability and consistency of the research were determined by examining the relation between opinions of the participants by two researchers. For external reliability, the data col-

In focus group study, questions were asked to the participants and interviews continued for 4 hours. The collected data were recorded and then analyzed. In the analysis of data, participants were coded with numbers from 1 to 36. In the analysis of data, content analysis and data reduction methods were employed. Questions asked in the research were accepted as themes

As can be seen in **Table 1**, youth identified their expectations as regards athletic and cultural, public relations and support services, environmental protection, control and safety, human

*"MGA is not used by the youth as they wish at the moment. MGA must first be opened to the use of* 

*"Yes, there are sports activities but activities are many sports branches are missing; they have to be* 

lived in Famagusta city of TRNC in 2016.

were obtained using an open-ended data collection tool.

depending on which subthemes were formed.

**5.1. Expectations of the youth form local government**

Expectations of the youth form local government are given in **Table 1**.

standability and ordering of questions was tested with a pilot study.

lected in the research were presented to the working group and stored.

**4.2. Data collection techniques**

**4.3. Data analysis**

**5. Findings**

resources and education:

*us, young people" (6).*

*increased" (A and H).*
