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Turkey

Turkey has one of Europe's most volatile housing markets and one of its largest housing-construction sectors. The TOKİ public-housing programme and the contemporary post-earthquake reconstruction frame the country's housing future.

Turkey's housing landscape

Turkey combines distinctive housing-system with TOKİ federal social-housing developer + post-2023 earthquake-reconstruction context.

Turkey's housing system reflects its distinctive national context within the broader European housing-policy landscape.
Hürriyet

Cooperative + social housing context

Cooperative-housing tradition in Turkey operates within the broader regional housing-policy framework. The contemporary cooperative-housing-revival opportunity sits alongside the established housing-finance + governance institutions.

Istanbul (largest city) + Ankara (capital) + national housing policy

Turkey's housing politics runs through municipal + national channels. Hürriyet, Cumhuriyet, Sözcü, TRT cover from different angles.

Turkey housing policy arc
  1. Contemporary[source]

    Current housing-policy framework

    Turkey combines distinctive housing-system with TOKİ federal social-housing developer + post-2023 earthquake-reconstruction context.

  2. Jul 2024[source]

    25% cap on residential rent rises expires

    The 25% annual cap on residential rent increases, introduced in June 2022 during high inflation, was not extended and lapsed in July 2024, with the finance minister opposing market intervention.

  3. 2025-10-24[source]

    'Housing Project of the Century': 500,000 social homes

    Erdoğan launched the Yüzyılın Konut Projesi ('Housing Project of the Century') in Istanbul: 500,000 social homes across all 81 provinces, including 100,000 in Istanbul and 30,000 in Ankara.

  4. 2025-12-27[source]

    455,357 post-earthquake homes delivered

    At a ceremony in Hatay, Erdoğan marked the delivery of 455,357 homes and workplaces built after the February 2023 earthquakes.

  5. 2025-12-29[source]

    First TOKİ draw for the 500,000-home programme

    TOKİ (the state housing agency) held the programme's first kura (lottery) in Adıyaman, allocating 6,620 homes; draws then continued province by province into 2026.

Lighthouse city in Turkey: Istanbul (largest city) + Ankara (capital)

Turkey's housing-policy + cooperative-housing initiatives run primarily through Istanbul (largest city) + Ankara (capital). Library still building out.

References

Statistics1Click on any number to see the source

Population & migration

Further sources6

Funding & land tenure

What a housing cooperative could actually build on here
Cities researched1Ankara
Best affordable-housing supportLimited5 researched programmes across this country
Office→housing conversionNone foundStrongest change-of-use incentive found here

Land tenure has not been assessed for Turkey yet — that is a gap in the research, not a finding.

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