Housing Policies in Turkey

With the mission of absorption of the capital through urban renovation, AKP (the Justice and Welfare Party) took over the metropolitan municipality administrations in big cities in 1995, and the Government of the Republic of Turkey in 2002. Together with the 2003 Mass Housing Act, 14 legal regulations were enacted between 2002 and 2008 to expand the field of activity and increase the funds of TOKI (Governmental Mass Housing Administration) which was already established during the ANAP (the Motherland Party) Government in the 1980s. As a result of those regulations, TOKI, as the “latest goddess of the construction myth”, became the only authorized organization in the field of housing and land production in AKP’s cities.