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In general, natural, demographic, cultural, economic and political factors are effective on the preferences of people for a residence area. It is determined that certain groups are concentrated and clustered in certain areas under these factors as a result of conscious, compulsory and incidental choices; and this is defined as Spatial Segregation. In the present study, the Spatial segregation traces were searched in the metropolitan districts of Samsun Province by analyzing the datasets presented by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) at the district level as age, gender, educational status, residence registered in the registry office, and parliamentary election results. As a result, it was determined that there were significant differences in the population between the metropolitan districts according to the characteristics given above, especially in Atakum and Canik districts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Antalya city is located in the Antalya section of the Mediterranean Region (Muratpaşa, Kepez, Döşemealtı, Aksu, and Konyaaltı). Antalya city, established and having flourishing in a very important area, stands out for its physical and human geographical features. The area and the periphery of Antalya city make considerable contributions to both the region and Turkey with its various functions and geographical characteristics. Over the last 35-40 years, the city has attracted growing attention in terms of its population and settlement features such as rich history, agriculture, industry, commerce, tourism, and transportation. Therefore, the city has come to suffer from such critical issues as disrupted agricultural areas, improper land use, disappearing water resources and natural vegetation, urban sprawl, and environmental problems. Its geographical location plays a decisive role in the identification of the human and physical characteristics of the research area. Thus, the population in Antalya city leads a life affected by the social, political, and economic characteristics arising from human and physical properties of the area. In the present study, field research has been carried out in various periods and down-to-ground conclusions have been drawn. For the purpose of the study, the maps were produced by ArcGIS10.4. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, transportation is the most important activity that has gathered settlements in terms of economy and human. We cannot accept the transport activity as a factor existing only physically in one area. Because the transport activity produces huge effects on settlements in terms of human through the agency of both land and sea and air transports. The most considerable effect is settling – population. İstanbul, the biggest “Mega City” in our country, is conuenient for road haulage because of its topographical conditions. The D100 motorway and the TEM highway, extending from east to west across the city, affect the residential areas along their paths with regard to facilities such as industry, trade, settling and population. This interaction is significantly seen especially in Silivri, Büyükçekmece and Beylikdüzü of which the populations have started to increase rapidly, distanced approximately 60-80 kilometres from the city centre. At the same time, this study analysing the relationship between the countries located on the shares of the Marmara Sea with the highway route has been evaluated in the light of 15 years’ population data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Turkish migrants, which are in the diverse area of the world, has special and unique experience due to the attitudes of host countries and the process of migration. In this context, Turkish community in London has greatly different features in the respect of both other migrant communities in United Kingdom and Turkish migrants in other European countries. Turkish population in London intensify in the districts of North London such as Enfield, Haringey, Hackney and Islington, and this region is called "The Small Turkey " due to having so many labour spaces owned by Turkish people such as markets, kebap shops and restaurants, and due to the number of social and cultural spaces such as organizations, coffee houses, schools, mosques, cemevis that Turkish people frequent. Even if the region has some features of both the homeland and the host country, it is a unique and distinctive place. Thus, my first aim in this paper is to describe the places belong to Turkish people in London, and to examine what makes the region distinctive and to informbriefly the history of Turkish migration and Turkish population in London. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at showing spatial analysis of district level population distribution in Turkey with respect to environmental parameters related to elevation and distance to sea. The population distribution was based on 2012 census for 81 provinces partitioned into a total of 957 districts. Districts were divided into different elevation zones based on their mean elevation values which were calculated by averaging elevation values of pixels of DEM data. Secondly coastal proximity zones were calculated as inland buffers of 50, 100, 150 kilometres from coastline. Districts were divided into groups based on area of their largest part which were contained by related coastal proximity buffer. The large proportion of the population (about 53 %) resides at elevations higher than 500 meters, whereas remaining proportion population (% 47) lives at less than 500 meters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]