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Ankara

Ankara publishes no register of empty, derelict or unfinished buildings, and its metropolitan municipality's open-data map (Şeffaf Ankara) is a JavaScript application with no download we could use. What is public is a pattern: the capital's ministries and courts leave large old buildings behind as they move to new campuses — the former Treasury headquarters (55,300 m², emptied by March 2026 and heading for demolition), the Court of Cassation's Kızılay buildings (2021), six hospitals reported idle after the Bilkent City Hospital opened (2023) — while the metropolitan municipality sells land by sealed bid (three Çankaya plots of 8,957 to 19,068 m² on 20 August 2026, open to co-operatives), restores idle public buildings itself (an 11-storey former sports directorate for EGO, 2024) and street by street in Ulus (28 buildings on Tenekeciler, 121 on Anafartalar). The radar adds the mapped office stock and OpenStreetMap's brownfield tags; military, police and government-security sites are left out.
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record1023 confirmed
On the map3,200buildings and sites from 5 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No Ankara office vacancy figure was found: the 2026 broker reports that surfaced cover Istanbul only. Map built 2026-10-09.

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The map

Every building a record says stands empty, one point per building: filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is, and open one to see who says so. “Opportunities” switches to the co-op lens: public land, conversion potential and projects already under way, every source as its own layer.

No register of empty, derelict ('metruk') or unfinished buildings is published for Ankara; district municipalities demolish derelict buildings under urban-transformation and safety campaigns, and no list of them is open. A 2008 METU thesis studied three Ulus buildings of Emlakbank, Sümerbank and TEKEL left unoccupied after privatisation; their present state was not found.

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Check any building in Ankara: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

Where to look first

Buildings with evidence that they stand empty — a second source agrees, a public record names them, or we have checked them — ranked by a score you can read: co-op scale, daylight depth, a station nearby, a zone that allows homes, affordable land and an open route in. Checked buildings carry their result; nobody has visited them on site yet. Leerstandsmelder reports join the list when they sit in a large non-residential building and a second source agrees.

PriorityBuildingFloor areaDepthStationConversion checkActions
88Yargıtay's former main building (Holzmeister), Atatürk Bulvarı, Kızılay
Public building named vacant
2,862 m²14.5 m441 mA fit only
46Former Treasury Undersecretariat building (ex-Halkbank headquarters), Eskişehir Yolu
Public building named vacant
55,300 m²37.7 m514 mA fit only
21Büyük Çankaya Oteli ('the crane building'), Kazım Özalp
Stalled or insolvent project
87,000 m²—1,594 m—

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

A hand outlining a neighbourhood on a city map, with small houses drawn inside

Ulus — the historic centre

The metropolitan municipality owns and restores here: it turned a building idle for about seven years into EGO's headquarters, and it is restoring whole streets of shops and workshops.

  • Former sports directorate, 11 storeys, idle about 7 years, restored for EGO (January 2024)
  • Tenekeciler Street: 28 buildings, 6 registered cultural assets (May 2026)
  • Anafartalar Street: 121 buildings, 25 registered cultural assets (August 2026)

Risk: Heritage listing, the municipality's own renewal plans for the Ulus area, and split ownership along the streets.

3 sources

Kızılay–Sıhhiye — the old government and hospital quarter

Public bodies moved to new campuses and left large old buildings: the Court of Cassation's Holzmeister building and annexes, and hospitals such as Zekai Tahir Burak reported idle.

  • Yargıtay moved to Ahlatlıbel in 2021, leaving three Kızılay buildings
  • Six hospitals kept idle after the Bilkent City Hospital opened (2023 claim)
  • Demolition decision for the six-block Dışkapı hospital, March 2023

Risk: Heritage value, unknown allocation to other public bodies, and no list of what stands empty now; the 2021 and 2023 reports are not current.

3 sources

Eskişehir Yolu — the former Treasury headquarters

A 55,300 m² State building on a main axis was emptied by March 2026; if the plot is re-planned instead of rebuilt as offices, it is one of the largest release sites in the city.

  • Built 1991 as Halkbank headquarters
  • Evacuation from 2023, complete by late March 2026
  • 55,300 m² of floor area

Risk: Demolition was expected within days; the owner and the replacement use are not published.

1 source

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

A door key on a doorstep with a drawn path leading to an open door
Public owner

Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi — Emlak ve İstimlak Daire Başkanlığı

Sells municipal land by sealed bid before its Encümen. The 31 July 2026 notice offered three Çankaya (Lodumu) plots of 19,068, 10,032 and 8,957 m² (TL 2.1, 1.0 and 0.9 billion; bids by 20 August 2026; specification TL 10,000 plus VAT; 3% provisional guarantee) and lists the papers a co-operative must file — an operating certificate, a notarised general-assembly decision to buy property and a notarised representative signature. Plots, not buildings, so a co-operative needs a build programme and a partner.

1 source
Public owner

Privatisation Administration (ÖİB) and the Treasury

Sells State property by sealed bid, then negotiation, then an open auction among the remaining bidders: the 31 July 2026 round had 12 properties in five provinces, three of them in Çankaya (bids by 20 August 2026). The notice's property-level details are in the Resmi Gazete text, which a co-operative should read for each round.

1 source
City agency

Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi as restorer of idle public buildings

Restores idle public buildings for its own use (the 11-storey former sports directorate for EGO, January 2024) and whole streets in Ulus. A co-operative's route is to propose a use or a partnership for buildings the municipality holds or is restoring, rather than a purchase.

3 sources

Signals to watch

Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.

  1. 2026-08-07
    Anafartalar Street restoration: 121 buildings

    The municipality's Ulus street-rehabilitation work on Anafartalar Caddesi covers 121 buildings, 25 of them registered cultural assets.

    1 source
  2. 2026-07-31
    Municipal and Privatisation Administration sales close on 20 August

    The municipality offers three Çankaya plots; the Privatisation Administration offers 12 properties in five provinces, three in Çankaya.

    2 sources
  3. 2026-05-04
    Tenekeciler Street restoration begins

    28 buildings on the street, 6 of them registered cultural assets.

    1 source
  4. 2026-03-31
    Former Treasury building fully emptied

    The 1991 Halkbank headquarters, 55,300 m², was emptied after a 2023 earthquake-vulnerability report; demolition expected.

    1 source
  5. 2026-03-11
    Press feature on Ankara's 'ghost buildings'

    Names the crane building at Yıldız (stalled for years, now being revised as a hotel-residence), Ankapark (neglected for years before the municipality took it over) and the Cumhuriyet Tower in Keçiören (a concrete shell until its 2024 opening).

    1 source
  6. 2024-01-13
    EGO moves into a restored idle public building in Ulus

    The former sports directorate building, 11 storeys, idle for about 7 years, was restored by the municipality.

    1 source
  7. 2023-03-03
    Demolition decision for the Dışkapı hospital

    After the February 2023 earthquakes a commission found cracks in the six-block hospital and asked for it to be emptied; it was still running at full capacity on the article's date.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

13 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.

Show every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API201Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich)
Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building.
Open download249 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
EEA standard re-use policy (attribution)
Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings
Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg)
Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named).
Asking for permission0Pending
2026-10-09
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty
Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report)
German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point
Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed
Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records)
Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation)
Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018)
European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy.
Open API2,451Live
2026-10-09
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers
EHC research (dated press and court sources per point)
Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up
Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research
Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research4Live
2026-10-09
Facts cited to their publishers
Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags
OpenStreetMap contributors
start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Office buildings mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API442Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Brownfield land mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API102Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No register of empty, derelict ('metruk') or unfinished buildings is published for Ankara; district municipalities demolish derelict buildings under urban-transformation and safety campaigns, and no list of them is open. A 2008 METU thesis studied three Ulus buildings of Emlakbank, Sümerbank and TEKEL left unoccupied after privatisation; their present state was not found.
  • Şeffaf Ankara (seffaf.ankara.bel.tr) is the municipality's open-data and map portal. It answers, but its layers come from a service (seffafservice.ankara.bel.tr) that the page's JavaScript reaches with a client-side security manager that encrypts some request bodies; we did not try to reproduce it. acikveri.ankara.bel.tr and data.ankara.bel.tr did not answer. A request to the municipality for its property ('taşınmaz') layer would add the best public-ownership data.
  • Sale notices (the municipality's, the Privatisation Administration's, the Treasury's) carry district, neighbourhood and ada/parsel only. Without an open parcel-to-coordinates service (none was found) they cannot be placed on the map; the three Çankaya plots of 31 July 2026 are in the routes, not on the map.
  • emlakkulisi.com, a property news site that often reports municipal sales, answered 403 to automated fetches and was not read. Several current items (the Treasury building's demolition, the hospitals) need on-the-ground checks.
  • No open orthophoto service was found, so building cards show Esri's World Imagery instead. Floor areas come from the Global Building Atlas only.
  • Military, gendarmerie, police, intelligence and other government-security sites are excluded by rule, whatever their condition; the OpenStreetMap office layer also drops offices tagged government, diplomatic, military or police.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Ankara that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

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We publish the address, the kind of building and your description once we have checked it — never your email. Please do not name the people who own or live in a building.

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