ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to show how the interaction between different actors for the appropriation of space takes place in Turkey, especially in the context of neoliberal urban planning under the rule of the Party of Justice and Development since 2003. It proposes different urban resistances in Turkey in the light of the right to the city and spatial justice and to analyse how these concepts are perceived and mobilised by inhabitants. Urbanisation in Turkey can be explained through three historical phases: the period before 1980, the period between 1980 and 2001 and the period after 2001. Lefebvre perceived the right to the city as a way of legitimating ‘the refusal to allow oneself to be removed from urban reality by a discriminatory and segregative organization’. Neighbourhood cements a shared identity related to the place among residents, but not just in relation to the specific codes and practices associated with ethnicity.
