Contested Development: Challenges to Neoliberal Urbanism in the Kurdish Region of Turkey

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Brief Overview

This paper focuses on collaboration and contestation between local institutional actors in the historical city center of Diyarbakır to explain the politics of urban development in the largest Kurdish city of Turkey prior to the urban warfare of 2015.

Author

• Ronay Bakan, Johns Hopkins University