RT Conference Proceedings
SR 00
A1 Betül Kurtuluş, Vacide
A1 Şahin Güçhan, Neriman
T1 Panel 2 Paper 2.3: A Discussion on Rural Transformation in Turkey
YR 2019
FD 17 October 2019
K1 Cultural Landscapes
K1 Rural sites
K1 conservation of rural areas
K1 legal framework
K1 Rural Heritage
K1 globalization
K1 historic surveys
K1 land use
K1 customs ans traditions
K1 paesants
K1 paesantry
K1 farming
K1 agricultural pocilies
K1 negative impact
K1 local level
K1 local communities
K1 social and economic aspects
K1 case studies
K1 Conservation of cultural landscapes
K1 Turkey
AB Rural areas represent an indigenous culture and richness of a native society. The environment made by this society is a product of local culture, built by the use of available local materials, considering local production and lifestyle of the villages. Continuity of rural areas is necessary for safeguarding a specific landscape – which has specific features – on earth with its components. A specific landscape can sustain only with a continuous rural life. For a sustainable rural life, the income source of the inhabitants which is mainly based on production should be continuous.    In Turkey, in rural areas, most of the population used to deal with the agricultural production. However, the number of people living in rural areas has decreased gradually because of the policies applied as a result of the worldwide movements and trends such as industrialization, mechanization, modernization and globalization. These policies affects the national policies and rural areas lost importance and improvement of urban areas become the foremost aim of the state. The outcomes of the changes in national policies threatens rural heritage achieving a positive contemporary transformation.    In this text, the transformation of rural areas in Turkey regarding the applied policies by the government is introduced to understand basics of the problem for conservation of rural areas. The alterations in the agricultural, legal and administrative policies in Turkey are discussed. The regulations made in the policies caused traditional rural practices of small land owners lost their validity by elimination of human force and discovery of new cultivation methods. The common crisis has been the unavoidable migration from rural to urban. This initiated improvisation of the peasants and annihilation of rural life and architecture. This process is also seen in rural areas of foreign countries and discussed on global platforms. Therefore, a general approach for conservation of rural areas is put forward through international charters comparing it with the approaches in Turkey.
T2 ICOMOS 2019 Advisory Committee Scientific Symposium - Rural Heritage - Landscapes and Beyond
ED Marrakesh, Morocco
AV Published
LK http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2231/
UL https://doi.org/10.7275/7j83-9644