The social relief in modern sense does not include the values of mercy, helpfulness or charity. Contrary to this, social assistance should be discussed on a right-based platform. As a mat-ter of fact, since assuring the social security of people is an obligati-on of the state; social relief, which is an important element of social security, is exactly under the responsibility of the state. The discus-sion of social relief, on the basis of rights, can be considered as self protection of the society almost as a whole. As a matter of fact, in right-based social relief understanding, providing poor and needy persons benefit from several reliefs is discussed as a social right. One of the biggest obstacles on the establishment and deve-lopment of right-based social relief understanding is seen as “clien-telism”, which is a form of political favouritism. The concept of clientelism can be defined as to be made the demand of political support by political authority in exchange for a number of services or goods offered according to distribution criteria. An understanding of social relief, based on clientalism, not only lives through the elements such as neediness, poverty, social exclusion, ethnic and religious differen-ces, but also consumes the public resources that will provide the necessary assistance and services for the whole society, as well as it is inclined to feed and reproduct these elements.