@article{article_1155527, title={Remapping Regions: The Role of Socio-Economic Development Indicators in the New Incentive System of Turkey}, journal={Çalışma ve Toplum}, volume={1}, pages={73–88}, year={2020}, author={Orhan, Gözde}, keywords={bölgesel kalkınma, kalkınma indeksi, kent, yerelleşme, sınıflandırma}, abstract={This paper aims to scrutinize the localization policy of Turkey in the 2010s shaped within the frame of a new classification perspective called Statistical Regional Units Classification İBBS or NUTS , which was developed in 2002 and focuses on the SocioEconomic Development Index of Cities 2011 SEGE-2011 , which forms the basis of the new incentive system and determines the fund that every RDA receives from the budget. Through the reports and bulletins of local development agencies and news about the reactions of local businesspeople of cities, it aims to problematize the relationships between socio-economic local/regional development and economic missions attributed to the cities. To what extent do the criteria of development demonstrate the links between the needs and investment potentials of the cities? How were investment decisions guided with the hierarchies among cities established by SEGE? Do the objectives of the strategies address identified needs? Around these questions, this research will focus on certain cities whose socioeconomic ranges changed after 2012 due to the SEGE-2011 Rize, Trabzon, Kayseri, Konya, Elazığ, Kastamonu, Bayburt, Erzurum, Gümüşhane, Tunceli and Çankırı are some of them and discuss the transformation of investment decisions about these cities via qualitative analysis. The study argues that the new incentive zoning identified by the index ultimately related not only to economic but also to political processes}, number={64}, publisher={Birleşik Metal İş Sendikası}