This is a study of rural-to-urban migrants in Ankara, Turkey—the relationship between maintaining village contacts after settling in the city and evidence of urban acculturation. Taking two aspects of urban acculturation, urban participation and belief-attitude changes, it was found that maintaining contacts with the villages promotes, rather than inhibits urban adaptation. The results were interpreted as supporting a contact-facilitation model of acculturation and the implications of this model for the social organization of Ankara and other newly urbanized cities was indicated. It was argued that the informal networks which migrants maintain with their villages serve as a support system for themselves and as an informal welfare system for newly arriving migrants.