Housing Development Administration of Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) during a welcoming ceremony with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama (L) at Tirana airport, January 17 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/MALTON DIBRA

The complex was financed and built by Turkey for Albanians who lost their houses in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in late 2019, which killed 51 people and displaced nearly 17,000 people.

The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) will put up 307 building plots in 29 provinces for auction on Dec. 22-23, according to a statement released on Dec. 6.

Turkey's real estate investment trust Emlak Konut GYO is poised to put about 35,000 houses on the market starting from the final quarter of this year, its CEO has said.

"We are planning to start selling [houses of] 12 new projects in Istanbul in the final quarter of this year," daily Hürriyet quoted Hakan Gedikli as saying on Sept. 25.

Homes being developed for the victims of the devastating earthquake that took place in October last year in the western province of İzmir will start to be delivered to their owners at the end of next month.

The government launched the large-scale housing project for those whose homes were totally destroyed or heavily damaged in the tremor.

Officials at the Treasury and Finance Ministry are studying a proposal to launch a scheme that would allow private companies to build homes and lease them out to boost dwelling unit supply and to curb excessive rent increases.

Turkey's president hailed public housing projects in the country at an event on July 7 where he presented the key for the millionth public home to its new owners.

The famous white sands of Lake Salda in Burdur, which was removed by the company responsible for the construction of a public garden, is back to its own beach after 3 weeks of work.

The contractor company used heavy machinery on the beach, damaging the sand in Lake Salda, which has been reputed as 'Turkey's Maldives.'

Ankara Regional Chamber of Veterinarians President Hüseyin Tanrıverdi has said that they have applied to the state-owned Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) with a project demanding the establishment of permanent animal shelters in 81 provinces.

An urban transformation process, run by the state-owned Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ), will begin in the idyllic Ayder Plateau located in the Çamlıhemşin district of the Black Sea province of Rize by the end of this year, the local governor has announced.

Turkey has completed more than half of a 144-km wall on its border with Iran and will finish it next spring, The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) has stated, as Ankara bids to secure its frontiers against smuggling, illegal immigration and militant infiltration.