This article examines rural gentrification as experienced on the North Aegean coasts of Turkey. The study area chosen is the closest Aegean coast to İstanbul and it attracts attention because of its archeological and mythological values, as well as its natural beauty and vernacular landscape. The most important element determining the rural landscape of the region is olive production. The study is based principally on indepth interviews with village mukhtars, local people, newcomers, tourism entrepreneurs, and professionals.While the rural gentrification process in Turkey, a Mediterranean country, shows similarities with the gentrification process in rural areas of developed Western countries, differences can be observed as well. Depopulation in rural areas since 1950s and development of tourism in coastal areas after 1980 has brought about the investmentdisinvestment cycle, which is in the rural gentrification theory. It has been observed that in the rural area where tourism facilities have been improved, gentrification occurs in parallel. The migration of middle class to the villages has transformed the traditional land use and rural

İpek SAKARYA Çanakkale 2010'lu yıllarla birlikte neoliberal kentleşme politikalarının etkisi altına girmeye başlamıştır. Bu etkiyle artan kentsel büyüme baskısı Çanakkale kıyı şeridinde birçok yatırım projesinin geliştirilmesine neden olmuştur. Artan büyüme baskısı karşısında, kentteki sivil toplum inisiyatifleri bu projelerin gerçekleşmesini engellemek üzere kent konseyi içinde ve dışında direngen bir mücadele örmüştür. Bugün, neoliberal kentleşme karşısında Lefebvre'nin 1968'de ortaya attığı kent hakkı kavramı daha da önem kazanmaktadır. Kentsel mekânı dönüştürme hedefiyle geliştirilen projelere karşı örülen kent hakkı talebi bu çalışmanın ana eksenini oluşturmaktadır. Sivil toplum içinden kentin mekânsal gelişimine dair alınan kararlara katılım talebiyle ortaya çıkan kentsel muhalefet, zamanla kent hakkı mücadelesine dönüşerek daha geniş bir toplumsal kesime yayılmış ve daha direngen bir hal almıştır. Bu araştırma kapsamında Yat Limanı Projesi ve Tekel arazisi için geliştirilen proje olmak üzere kentsel muhalefet tarafından yapımı engellenen iki proje ele alınmıştır. Bu projelerin ortaya çıkışı, içeriği ve bu projelere karşı üretilen kentsel muhalefet, yapılan derinlemesine görüşmeler ve basın taraması yoluyla araştırılırken kentsel muhalefet tarafından üretilen yayınlar da bu kapsamda incelenmiştir. Müzakereci ve direngen iki farklı kentsel muhalefet biçiminin deneyimlendiği Canakkale örneği kentteki sivil toplumu güçlendirirken yerel yönetimin sivil toplumla olan ilişkisini de yeniden tanımlamıştır. Bu yazı, Çanakkale'deki kent hakkı mücadelesinin, yerel demokrasinin güçlenmesi ve toplumsal dönüşüm arasında karşılıklı bir ilişkiden ortaya çıktığını iddia etmektedir.Anahtar sözcükler: Kent hakkı; kentsel muhalefet; neoliberal kentleşme; sivil toplum.Neoliberal urbanization policies began to affect Çanakkale from the beginning of 2010. With this effect, the increasing force on urban growth has led to the development of several coastline projects in Çanakkale. The civil initiatives of the city have started a resistant struggle, against the rising growth, in and out of the city council to prevent the implementation of these projects. Today against the neolibaral urbanization the concept of 'the Right to the City' which Lefebvre developped in 1968, gained more significance. The right to the city movement which organized against the projects developed with the aim of transforming urban space is the main goal of this study. The urban opposition flourished from civil society emerged with the demand to participate in the decision-making on the spatial development of the city by the municipality. The struggle, then, gradually became a struggle for the right to the city, spreading a broader social dimension and more stability. Within the scope of this research, two projects which were halted by the urban opposition, including the Marina project and the project developed in the area of Tekel land, were discussed. The emergence of these projects, their content and the urban opposition organized against these projects wer...

In Kepez, which was established as a village with fertile agricultural lands, rural life has been left behind during the urbanization process spanning 40 years; replaced by a small-scale city. Since 1980, public and private investments made in Kepez Town and its surroundings have been effective in the growth of the town and the reproduction of the space. Since 1980, public and private investments made in Kepez Town and its surroundings have been effective in the growth of the town. From 1980 to the present, spatial policies have been produced for the town in different periods and planning decisions have been taken. Planning approaches in which different actors were active in different periods had an important place in the city's taking its existing spatial form. Kepez, which lost its rural characteristics over time, started to lose the fertile agricultural lands around it with the growth of the urban area. Within the scope of this study, the spatial change of Kepez Town in the historical process has been discussed in three periods: 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This study reveals that the current spatial form of Kepez was formed by the planning decisions taken so far.