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Until 1950s, development notion had been examined on territorial base. Macroeconomic values belonging to a country had been evaluated as they were applicable to all regions of the entire country. However, starting from 1950s, importance of studying development not only territorial, but also regional was revealed. Starting from these years, many countries do not consider macro values as only parameter of development, they also consider regional development as a fundamental effect. Especially in Turkey, due to the geographical structure, general macro values do not reflect the entire country. As the values reflect positive in western cities such as İstanbul, when moved towards East, these values do not reflect these regions truely. Because of this situation, especially after 1990, regional development has become an important case to be considered. In addition to seven regional areas, in the framework of EU harmonization process, Statistical Region Units Classification (SRUC) was made in three different levels on 22 September 2002 under the law no. 2002/4720. The regions were started to be evaluated according to this classification. Diyarbakır province is placed in TRC2 class in SRUC with Şanlıurfa. The objective of this article is revealing aims and details of regional development and also change of development dates of Diyarbakır during the years. At the same time, some information is given on Karacadağ Development Agency which is in charge of TRC2 region and the activities done by the agency are reviewed

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