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Abstract enWhile urban regeneration in Turkey emerges as an effective method of intervention in the transformation of urban space into areas of attraction for the global capital, intervention areas are squatter housing areas where degradation is visible, the population of which gradually loses its acceptability in social integration processes. Evolving from the 1940s up to the present, the urbanites, meeting an unexpected population and space, have always viewed squatter housing population as a problem. Government policies are formulated in accordance with this social perception. The difference with today’s regeneration applications is their legitimization of intervention through elements of poverty and crime. But as the squatter housing areas are demolished and subject to gentrification, squatter population moves to different areas of the city with their problems. So it is inevitable that these areas will be subject to regeneration. This study first questions this phenomenon in a historical perspective and then discusses its results in two case study areas in Ankara. The preliminary research area is Çinçin in where increasing poverty and crime ratesbrought about urban regeneration. Yet, while some portion of the criminal population migrated to other destinations after regeneration, another portion has remained and sustained the crime rates. The second study area is Sincan Saraycık Neighborhood, a place where Altındağ’s squatter population migrated to and the original population abandoned. This change has become visible in the social and physical space and Sincan’s Mayor has announced his decision on applying urban regeneration in the Saraycık Neighborhood.

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