The increasing environmental footprints of cities necessitated the integration sustainability principles into urban planning and development frameworks. The growing attention on urban sustainability also influenced the policy and the practice of urban regeneration. The quest for new methods for regenerating existing urban quarters in sustainable manners resulted in the concept of sustainable urban regeneration. The concept aims to develop urban regeneration projects in line with the three key pillars of sustainable development.

Since the turn of the new millennium, urban regeneration initiatives in Turkish cities have gained a new momentum, mainly due to the increasing interest by public and private sectors. As expected, squatters constituted one of the main focuses of the recent initiatives for urban regeneration. Nevertheless, the Turkish experience of urban regeneration differs from the international experiences in terms of the motivation behind and the scope of the projects. Despite the growing link between sustainability and urban regeneration in international practices, sustainability has not yet been a major motivation for urban regeneration practices in Turkey.

This research assesses the sustainability performance of one of the most prominent examples of squatter regeneration in Turkey, namely the North Ankara Urban Regeneration Project (NAURP). The project has been evaluated by means of an indicator-based methodology. The research indicates that the project's contribution to urban sustainability has been minimal and thus, further efforts are required to improve the sustainability performance of urban regeneration projects in Turkey. In the light of this finding, policy implications have been made to push sustainable urban regeneration agenda in Turkey.

城市日益增加的环境足迹要求将可持续性原则纳入城市规划和发展框架。对城市可持续性的日益关注也影响了城市更新的政策和实践。对以可持续方式再生现有城市区的新方法的追求导致了可持续城市再生的概念。该概念旨在根据可持续发展的三个主要支柱来开发城市更新项目。

自新千年之交以来，土耳其城市的城市更新举措获得了新的动力，这主要是由于公共和私营部门的兴趣日益增加。不出所料，屋居民是近期城市更新倡议的主要重点之一。但是，土耳其的城市更新经验与国际经验在项目动机和范围方面有所不同。尽管在国际惯例中可持续性与城市更新之间的联系日益紧密，但可持续性尚未成为土耳其城市更新实践的主要动力。

这项研究评估了土耳其屋再生最突出的例子之一，即北安卡拉城市再生项目（NAURP）的可持续性表现。该项目已通过基于指标的方法进行了评估。研究表明，该项目对城市可持续性的贡献微乎其微，因此，需要进一步的努力来改善土耳其城市更新项目的可持续性表现。根据这一发现，已经提出了政策建议以推动土耳其的可持续城市更新议程。