Régionalisation et développement régional en Anatolie du Sud-est : réflexions autour de la région Diyarbakır-Şanlıurfa

• Main Author: Benoit Montabone
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique 2011-07-01
• Series: EchoGéo
• Subjects: competitiveness; development agency; Diyarbakır-Şanlıurfa; regional development; regionalisation; South-east Anatolia
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/12405

Proceeding from the example of theDiyarbakır-Şanlıurfa region, this paper proposes a critical assesment of the creation of regional development agencies in Turkey, given the specificities of the South-east Anatolian region. The scope of the regionalisation process is hence less wide as expected due to overlapping institutions and regional difficulties. It appears that the so-called Kurdish question is not a determinant factor and that these agencies participate to the “post-exceptional” phase of state-society relations in South-east Anatolia. The new established agencies are a tool for local elites to constitute a regional growth coalition in order to enhance the region’s competitiveness. They are used more as a new instrument for territorial management than as an opportunity to implement regionally integrated development plans.