ABSTRACT
Urban renewal is the transformation of areas that cannot offer quality living spaces to their residents due to spatial, economic and social changes by making interventions in order to increase the quality of life and provide access to social services. This study addresses the emotional dimensions of the spatial consequences of the urban renewal project implemented after 2016 in the Suriçi region of Diyarbakır. The objective of the study is to reevaluate the urban renewal process through emotions and try to understand this process in the sample of Diyarbakır Suriçi. In the study, phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. In-depth interview was used for data collection. The sample of the study consisted of 12 people, as 8 females and 4 males of different ages between 23 and 60, who had to leave the region after the terrorist acts and conflict process that took place in the region in 2015 while residing in the Suriçi region of Diyarbakır and whose neighborhoods underwent urban renewal. In the study, feelings of helplessness, sadness, unhappiness, loss and longing for the past are the prominent themes in the emotional reflections of urban transformation on the residents of Diyarbakır Suriçi.