Turkey is experiencing a very rapid urbanization. Today, 70% of the country's population is living in urban areas. When mass domestic migration toward big cities began in the mid-1950s, the population of metropolitan Istanbul was 1.5 million; today it is home to more than 15 million inhabitants. The interview discusses the transformation of the Istanbul through the lens of political transformations.
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Yapici, M., & Ileri, E. (2018). Urban transformation in Istanbul. In Authoritarianism and Resistance in Turkey: Conversations on Democratic and Social Challenges (pp. 63–71). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76705-5_7
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