New paths towards sustainable rural development: lessons from Southeastern Anatolia region development plan in Turkey

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyse and to bring out the different aspects of the revised version of the GAP Master Plan. For this reason, firstly, the steps of the plan from the first version to last one will be examined. Next, both regional and national cases and conditions will be evaluated. In the third step the participatory and sustainable dimensions of the GAP Master Plan will be discussed. And, in the last step, in order to complete project in time planned, what should be done and lessons learned from the process will be analyzed.