Urban policies on diversity in Istanbul, Turkey

2014-11-28
Critical analysis of existing urban policy programmes and discourses in Istanbul, Turkey. Includes overview of political systems and governance structures, key shifts in national discourses, and approaches to policy over migration, citizenship, and diversity

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Citation Formats
A. Eraydın, N. Güngördü, and İ. Demirdağ, “Urban policies on diversity in Istanbul, Turkey,” 2014. Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12959.