Effects of new regional policies on Turkish regional development : the case of Southern Eastern Anatolia Project

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In this thesis, changing regional development policies and effects of these in Turkey is discussed. Regional inequalities have been one of the important concerns of the Republic of Turkey. However, the restructuring of state and capitalism during 1980̕s led to a change in regional policies and Turkish regional polices have surely begun to be affected from new policies. Yet, these new policies do not seem to offer much about promoting development in underdeveloped regions. This study aims to analyze the effects of new regional policies with their successes and failures in order to find out whether they can offer a suitable policy framework for promoting development in underdeveloped regions of Turkey. With this aim, changing policies in Southern Eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) will be discussed. Transformation of GAP, from a project of irrigation and energy based on previous allocative regional policies to a sustainable human development project will be examined. According to findings of the study, some remarks will be made about policy framework that should be taken as a basis in GAP.

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Regional planning, Regional development policies, New regionalism, Sustainable development, Southern Eastern Anatolia Project (GAP)

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/665/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13749

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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S. Demşek, “Effects of new regional policies on Turkish regional development : the case of Southern Eastern Anatolia Project,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.