Abstract
The effect of the regional context in public space debates has wide coverage in the literature. Studies emphasize that the interaction of groups with each other, the bond they establish with the space, ethnic and cultural patterns, and political decisions are effective in the production of space. Urban parts, where ethnic clusters are observed in the historical flow and this pattern changes over time, offer opportunities to trace the spatial production potentials of societies and the unique visibility of local people in the city. The study, it is aimed to trace the network of relations established by Jewish and Greek ethnic clusters with the city in the Ottoman and Republican periods. Greek and Jewish neighborhoods in Ankara, Izmir, and Istanbul on urban identity and memory were examined. It has been determined that the transition from the ethnic and sectarian society to the nation-state with the republic, fires, and migration waves are important and that these periods have reflections on the urban identity. As a result of the study, it has been understood that the regions examined have their traces of each period, that ethnic agglomerations tend to be introverted, and that similarity of beliefs affects the emergence of social networks.