CHAPTER 4 Displacing Resistance in Kurdish Regions: The Symbiosis of Neoliberal Urban Transformation and Authoritarian State in Sur Diren Ta¸s Abstract Many states seek to shape their own space with mass-scale neoliberal urban transformation projects that result in the widespread displacement and dispossession of subaltern classes from inner-city neigh- bourhoods. This chapter focuses on how the AKP government, which has been at the vanguard of an authoritarian resurgence in Turkey, facili- tates post-conﬂict neoliberal urban transformation projects as a revanchist mechanism to suppress oppositional politics and grassroots resistance in Kurdish cities. Based on an ethnographic case study in the Sur This chapter is based on my master’s thesis submitted to the Middle East Technical University (METU), entitled ‘Urban Transformation as Political and Ideological Intervention in Space: A Case Study in Diyarbakır ’ (Ta¸ s, D., 2019, Master’s thesis, METU). D. Ta¸ s(B ) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany e-mail: Diren.Tas@campus.lmu.de © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022 ˙ I. Borsuk et al. (eds.), Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4213-5_4 81