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Pınar Öztürk

Housing crisis deepens for students in Turkey

Housing crisis deepens for students in Turkey

The economic crisis has exacerbated housing challenges for students, driving up prices amid government reluctance to provide adequate housing solutions.

26 August 2024 Pınar Öztürk

Thirteen people killed in landlord tenant disputes in a year in Turkey, says MP

Thirteen people killed in landlord tenant disputes in a year in Turkey, says MP

The housing crisis is undermining social harmony, a CHP deputy has warned.

Toprak Yıldırım

Trans people in Turkey face housing crisis more intensely amid discrimination and phobia

Trans people in Turkey face housing crisis more intensely amid discrimination and phobia

Trans people are faced with unfair rental prices, transphobia from landlords and neighbors and difficulties in pursuing legal recourse, exacerbating the housing crisis.

9 July 2024 Toprak Yıldırım

Turkey's Central Bank governor reveals living with mother due to exorbitant rental prices in İstanbul

Turkey's Central Bank governor reveals living with mother due to exorbitant rental prices in İstanbul

Gaye Erkan's statement was met with skepticism, with many questioning how she claims inability to afford a rental home in İstanbul despite her substantial Central Bank governor salary and a lucrative career in finance in the US.

16 December 2023 Volga Kuşçuoğlu

Volga Kuşçuoğlu

Turkey's housing crisis: Citizens faced with landlord violence amid government inaction

Turkey's housing crisis: Citizens faced with landlord violence amid government inaction

To address the soaring rent prices, the parliament introduced a rent increase cap of 25% in June 2022. The law aimed to protect tenants but inadvertently created disparities between long-standing tenants and new renters.

11 December 2023 Volga Kuşçuoğlu

'We will continue to live with our flatmate after we marry'

LEAPING FLAT RENTS

'We will continue to live with our flatmate after we marry'

Mirza moved to his elder brother's flat temporarily but he cannot find one for himself ever since. Kübra and her fiance will continue to live with their flatmate after they marry, because they cannot affort a flat. Barış spent six months searching for a flat. bianet talked to renters and flat seekers in Kadıköy, İstanbul.

9 August 2023 Zeynep Akat

Subletting surges in İstanbul amid housing crisis

Subletting surges in İstanbul amid housing crisis

Renting their rooms or entire apartments for short periods of time is profitable but psychologically demanding, tenants say.

17 November 2022 Tuğçe Yılmaz

House sales to foreign citizens in Turkey jump 45 percent in a year while home ownership rate drops

House sales to foreign citizens in Turkey jump 45 percent in a year while home ownership rate drops

Citizens of Iran bought the highest number of properties with 784 and were followed by citizens of Iraq 741 sales and of Russia with 547 sales in the last month, according to TurkStat.

Some neighborhoods in Turkey see a 200-percent rent increase, show reports

Some neighborhoods in Turkey see a 200-percent rent increase, show reports

While the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the rent increase rate as 19.60 percent, house owners do not recognize this rate as rents have seen a 200-percent increase in some neighborhoods, causing fears for a housing crisis in cities.

27 January 2022

Erdoğan targets students, again: ‘Terrorist types’

Erdoğan targets students, again: ‘Terrorist types’

President Erdoğan has once again denied the problems about dormitories and housing in Turkey, saying that "they cannot leave the universities to “terror-like” students.

University students protesting high housing prices in Turkey prevented by police

University students protesting high housing prices in Turkey prevented by police

Police have intervened against the students staying the night at parks in different cities across the country in protest against the high dormitory fees and house rents. Students have been taken out of the parks; some students have been detained.

23 September 2021