The effects of regional development policies on urbanization: The case of Southeastern Anatolian Project

This thesis argues that poorly-designed and implemented regional development policies which focuses mainly economic development produce negative social and physical issues such as urban sprawl, uncontrolled migration, unhealty housing and exclusion of some special groups and inadequate development of human capital by clustering public resources in some cities though they achieve certain level of development. Regional Development approach, one of the main elements of the development of the countries, has been effectively used in many countries. This study aims to analyze the role of regional development policies in eliminating development gaps among regions within the Southeastern Anatolian Projects (GAP) framework, showing the effects of results to urbanization thay have emerged in cities in the region.