Özet:

Turkey-Syria relations, which started to normalize with the 1998 Adana Agreement, reached the best position in history after Bashar Assad came to power after 2000. But the process called "Arab spring or Damascus spring" both interrupted Turkey-Syria diplomacy and dragged Syria into civil war. As a result, the process that turns the Syrian population into refugees in other countries has begun. Turkey ranks first among the countries most preferred by Syrians in the migration process. The main reason for this is the strong historical ties between Turkey and Syria. In general, Turkey, in particular Gaziantep, has turned into densely populated places with the migration of Syrian origin. The social and spatial change process of the city of Gaziantep, which has turned into a densely populated place, has accelerated. The migration of Syrian origins to Gaziantep city has led to the economic and social change of the Gaziantep urban area, causing the urban area to be dragged into the reproduction process. Migrations cause the differentiation of the space according to the usage patterns and the changes in the social and economic structure. It has been tried to evaluate the changes in the urban area caused by the Syrian refugees who migrated to the city of Gaziantep forcibly, on the data obtained as a result of survey studies, in-depth interviews and fieldwork observations. In this context, in this study, the economic and social reflections of the spatial change caused by the forced migration from Syria in the city of Gaziantep were evaluated.

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