The extensive body of literature on the 2009 demolition of Sulukule, one of Istanbul’s largest and most well-known Romani (Gypsy) neighborhoods, has focused on issues of history and heritage, macro-economic and political processes such as urban development and neoliberalism, or rights discourses such as the Right to the City or Romani Rights (Karaman and Islam 2012; Uysal 2011; Robins 2011; Kuyucu and Ünsal 2010; Gürsoy 2009; Yolacan 2008). This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion around Sulukule by offering a perspective that accounts for the many people and things that were brought together because of the neighborhood’s demolition, and by exploring the lasting impacts of such assemblages on both Romani identity and the way Istanbul, as a city, is produced. Alongside the destructive actions of the bulldozers that left a razed neighborhood and a dislocated community, much was also produced in this particular moment and space, including new connections between Turkish and international rights organizations, emerging discourses and debates over Romani identity and citizenship, and flows of resources including funding and knowledge. Tracing such assemblages reveals the complexity of a particular event and its many reverberations. Drawing from primary ethnographic data collected during 14 months of fieldwork in Turkey, and engaging with work in the social sciences on urban assemblages (Coward 2012; McFarlane 2011; Brenner et al 2011; Robbins and Marks 2009; Phillips 2006; Ong 2005; Bennett 2004 & 2005), this paper proposes that viewing Sulukule through the lens of assemblage theory offers insights both into the urban as a process, and the power relations that go into producing cities.