Urban movements in istanbul: From local to global, from global to local

The paper aims to explore urban social movements in Istanbul against urban decisions shaped by neoliberal urban policies in different neighborhoods in terms of their ongoing attempts for alliances through the supportive effect of international groups, associations and alliances as in the case of European Social Forum. This process also lead to discussion milieus on urban social injustices, to politicization from local issues to common global resistance.The study will try to examine especially coalitions in Istanbul formed from global to local examining changing new forms of mobilization and organization which are emerged and (re)formed during this resistance process in spite of heterogeneous and conflictual dimensions, different characteristics of urban groups, multiple agents gathered by the commonality of urban issues.