Özet:

Chiefly in metropolises, as well in cities already having or still maintaining the potential for industrialization and in coastal cities, the phenomenon of urbanization has been in a serious break with the past. Because the rural-urban migration is neither capable of offering any remedy for the urgent problems of the immigrant circles nor leaves any room for the existence of an urbanization policy that would stand on its feet in Turkey. In the present day, it would be little short of a miracle to find in Istanbul “the Stambuli effendis” [“Istanbul gentlemen”], who made their mark on a 150-year era of Turkish literature; the local representatives of “the culture of Akhism” in Ankara; and the trade-oriented, genial figures in Izmir. Political administration of cities, now deprived of their “local population,” has turned, so to speak, into a “coalition of ghettos”. As political parties – which select certain nominees for municipal council membership among the “big guns” of the various fellow countrymen groups in a particular electoral district – come to power, they decline to work to find the real solution.

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