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Report from İstanbul Municipality's Planning Agency on TOKİ housing projects

Report from İstanbul Municipality's Planning Agency on TOKİ housing projects

The "200-250 Thousand Houses Every Year: Analysis of Urban Transformation Promises" report by İstanbul Planning Agency provides a detailed snapshot of TOKİ housing projects. The report finds that 80% of completed TOKİ projects are housing for upper and middle class in İstanbul in the last ten years.

14 February 2024

New policies for Türkiye's Roma population met with skepticism

New policies for Türkiye's Roma population met with skepticism

More than a decade after then-Prime Minister Erdoğan apologized for the state's past policies, the newly signed Roma Strategy for 2023-2030 and Action Plan for 2023-25 will likely not solve anything, organizations working with Roma people believe.

24 January 2023 Wouter Massink

Turkey’s housing agency TOKİ faces over 5 thousand court cases in 5 years

Turkey’s housing agency TOKİ faces over 5 thousand court cases in 5 years

Minister of Environment and Urbanization Kurum has answered the Parliamentary question of main opposition CHP MP Gürer: 5 thousand 45 lawsuits have been filed against the Ministry’s Housing Development Administration (TOKİ) in the last 5 years.

Police prevent MP Garo Paylan from entering cemetery

Police prevent MP Garo Paylan from entering cemetery

HDP MP Garo Paylan, Chamber of Architects Ankara Chair Tezcan Karakuş Candan and the group accompanying them were not allowed to enter the Armenian cemetery in Ankara to examine the ongoing construction.

‘Why don’t you stop the construction on Armenian cemetery?’

HDP MP PAYLAN

‘Why don’t you stop the construction on Armenian cemetery?’

HDP MP Garo Paylan has raised concerns that concrete is still being poured on an Armenian and Catholic cemetery in Ankara as part of a construction undertaken by the Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ).

144 Km Long Wall to Be Built on Iranian Border

144 Km Long Wall to Be Built on Iranian Border

A border wall similar to the “security wall” build on the Syrian border has begun to be built on the Iranian border. The wall built by TOKİ will be 144 km long.

"Political Approach towards Abused Women Needs Review"

WOMEN'S SHELTER PROGRAM

"Political Approach towards Abused Women Needs Review"

The government launches a shelter program for women exposed to violence in cooperation with Turkish women and children institutes and financially support by the EU. Karakuş from the Socialist Feminist Collective admonished that efforts have to be further extended beyond single projects.

6 January 2010 Ikbal Polat