Özet:

Although the educational and research mission of universities is prioritized; it can be said that universities have important contributions to the development of the cities where they were founded. In this regard, it is important that the cities where universities are planned to be established should have a potential for development. Opening universities in cities that do not have the potential for development and trying to develop these cities have various risks. In this study, the processes of change in the economic, demographic, sociocultural, and spatial structure of Tunceli City from the past to the present have been analyzed in parallel with the establishment of Munzur University. The study used a content analysis technique based on a qualitative method. Books, articles, dissertations, and internet sources in international and domestic literature on the university-city relationship, reports, and documents of official institutions and non-governmental organizations were used. As a result of the study, it has been reached that Munzur University has only a limited impact on the economic, demographic, sociocultural, and spatial development of the city. It can be asserted that this situation is essentially the result of the disadvantageous position of the city in different fields since the history and the lack of planning in the establishment of universities in Turkey.

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