“…Urban renewal, as a state-led gentrification agenda, has been a ubiquitous urban strategy that both central government and municipal authorities have pursued since the early 2000s in many cities across Turkey (Candan and Kolluoglu, 2008;Kuyucu and Ünsal, 2010;Karaman, 2013;Ay, 2019;Yardimci, 2020;Ay and Penpecioglu, 2022;Kuyucu, 2022). A determining characteristic of this nationwide urban redevelopment agenda is the market-based logic of neighborhood-scale demolition and reconstruction often in the form of public-private partnerships as a quintessential case of neoliberal urban restructuring in cities (Lovering and Türkmen, 2011;Demirtas-Milz, 2013;Lelandais, 2014;Unsal, 2015).…”