Abstract Turkey has been a migrant sending country for long years. Since the end of the 1990s, it has become a country of immigration particularly for refugees from war torn countries such as Iraq and Syria. These people were resettled by the government in so called satellite cities. Boluas one of those satellite cities that has been culturally homogeneous and economically well doing city. Differences in socio-economic situation, language, ethnicity, religion or denomination between refugees and local people caused different perceptions. The primary focus of our presentation is to discuss how local people perceive Iraqi and Syrian refugees resident in Bolu. Our main objective is in particular to answer the question of how local people perceive economic changes in the city brought by the refugees. As a conceptual framework, we use the notion of cultural exclusion and inclusion. The idea of inclusion and exclusion work via the construction of the Other. This way, we create “us” while excluding the “Other” and we design the Other while shaping us. In this respect, our discussions are based on a qualitative research. We conducted 44 in-depth, face-to-face interviews with local Turkish people living in Bolu. The snowball and convenient sampling techniques were utilized to reach the people.