@article{2017,title={THE PERSPECTIVE OF GAP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OR THE POTENTIALITY FOR THE SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT},abstractNode={GAP (Southeastern Anatolia Project) being a remarkable development initiative on the world scale, in terms of the area it covers and its goals and objectives, is an integrated regional development project aimed at eliminating economic and social inequalities in the region by providing economic growth and social stability. In the coming phase, GAP beyond being an economic development project based on the development of land and water resources, has become a sustainable social transformation project, centering on human development. The main objective of the project is to increase the sustainable quality of life of the people living in the region. The investment on physical infrastructure which will provide economic development will be evaluated within this target. Initially, considered as a mere technical project to increase economic efficiency, the GAP project has adopted a sustainable integrated development strategy, in line with the global developments of the 1980s. In the discourse of sustainability, the answers of questions such as what is sustainable, for whom and how long, can help in identifying sustainable development in terms of its socio-economic and ecological dimensions. At this juncture, the success of the project is regarded not only on the economic growth, but also on how much gains it has achieved in the human development indicators. The lowest level of sustainability is the fair distribution of benefits among the all segments of society. Considering these aims of GAP project, this study has emphasised that the land owenership, management of land and tribal relations are the major obstacles in the the way of development of the whole society.},author={Şevket ÖKTEN},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}