ABSTRACT
Urbanization and demographic transformation in Turkey have resulted in increased mobility, differentiation, and the formation of new patterns of social life. The geographical distribution of the population has changed entirely, not only with migration from rural to urban areas, but also with migration between cities within Turkey and emigration from Turkey to other countries, especially in Western Europe. Within Turkey, the overwhelming dominance of migration from the inner and eastern parts of Anatolia to the western and southwestern regions has generated a population pressure that has increasingly aggravated regional inequalities (SIS 1996, 1997, 1998; UNDP 1997).1
