Rural Household Strategies for Expropriated Land: A Case Study of Demirci Village

In 2017, it was decided to move the military troop from the capital city Ankara to the Polatlı-Sivrihisar districts line. Residents of Demirci village, located in Sivrihisar, have been faced expropriation of their lands because of this decision. This study is focused on the household strategies developed by the villagers as a result of expropriation. This study aims to address the changes in the village from a sociological perspective. In this context, interviews have been carried-out with 20 people, whose lands have been expropriated. The collected data has been analyzed descriptively. This study finds that the villagers, who have become landless, tend to migrate to cities. And the material provisions, which have been obtained from the expropriated lands, are generally used non-productively by them. This study also highlights a social disintegration caused by land expropriation in the village.