organization:housing development administration

Turkey sealing Syrian border with giant wall

The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) has undertaken the construction of the remaining 700 kilometers of the wall being built on Turkey’s border with war-torn Syria, after the construction of the initial 200-kilometer-long concrete wall on the border was completed jointly by the Defense Ministry and neighboring provinces governor’s offices.

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Turkey’s public housing body undertakes Syria border wall construction
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The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) has undertaken the construction of the remaining 700 kilometers of the wall being built on Turkey’s border with war-torn Syria, after the construction of the initial 200-kilometer-long concrete wall on the border was completed jointly by the Defense Ministry and neighboring provinces governor’s offices.
After completing the tender process for a 200-kilometer-long section of the to-be built wall and preparing works for the remaining section, TOKİ was expecting to finish the “security wall” in five months, its head, Ergün Turan, said. The wall is expected to block uncontrolled human passage across the border.

State housing agency TOKİ building three ‘container cities’ for Syrians in south Turkey - LOCAL
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Après les projets immobiliers, les stades de foot, les prisons, les aéroports, TOKI se lance dans la construction des camps de réfugiés

The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) has been building three new “giant container cities” for Syrians in the southern Turkish provinces of Hatay and Kahramanmaraş, hosting up to 40,000 refugees.

TOKİ an increasing source of urban discontent, says World Bank
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Turkey’s rate of urbanization in recent decades has only been second to South Korea, and a major vehicle of this has been the Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ). This organization, however, has become an “increasing source of urban discontent,” World Bank Turkey Director Martin Raiser said on Wednesday at the release of a new World Bank report in İstanbul.

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Two-thirds of residents unhappy with TOKİ houses
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Nearly two-thirds of residents who live in houses built by the state-owned Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) are dissatisfied with the quality of their houses, a poll has revealed.

The results of a recent survey of 5,000 residents conducted by the housing administration reveal widespread dissatisfaction among customers. TOKİ asked residents if they were satisfied with the quality of houses and 72 percent responded by complaining about the defective end product, saying they are not happy with the quality of construction materials used.

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Head of Turkey’s housing agency replaced amid reshuffle in bureaucracy
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Karabel has been dismissed after three years at the helm of the Housing Development Administration (TOKİ), which has overseen the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government’s breakneck efforts to build housing units anywhere and everywhere.

AKP Istanbul Municipality Assembly member Mehmet Ergün Turan has replaced Karabel, according to an announcement in the Official Gazette.

Karabel’s name recently came to agenda when an audio recording alleged to be between himself and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was leaked on social media.

In the alleged conversation, a man claimed to be Erdoğan lashes out at another man thought to be Karabel for selling “valuable land” on the Asian side of Istanbul to another company outside of his knowledge. The prime minister orders Karabel to inform him about all acquisition opportunities, according to the tape

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Turkey’s Erdoğan monopolizes high-value land sales, recording reveals
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Twitter whistleblower Başçalan (Prime Thief) leaked a voice recording on Thursday in which a voice allegedly belonging to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticizes a high-ranking government official for selling a valuable plot of land in İstanbul without his permission.

The conversation, purportedly between Erdoğan and Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) Chairman Ahmet Haluk Karabel, has the prime minister chiding the official for selling a valuable plot of land in the Ataşehir district of İstanbul to a company called Biat İnşaat without informing him beforehand.

“From now on, you will get my approval before selling any valuable land,” Erdoğan instructs Karabel, according to a transcript accompanying the voice recording. In response, Karabel says that he already knows not to take action without Erdoğan’s approval, but the prime minister challenges him, saying he did not know about the sale of the land in Ataşehir.

Appearing to be interested in the details of the sale, Erdoğan questions Karabel about the price and how many installments the company will pay for the land. Erdoğan further asks Karabel to research if a nullification of the sale would be possible since it took place without his permission. Karabel says he will send Erdoğan a folder with details of the case.

Karabel says the land was sold for TL 72 million and the Turkish construction company that bought it, Biat İnşaat, “had no problems paying in installments.”

Erdoğan’s ever-increasing involvement in Turkey’s construction sector is already a hot topic, and a second corruption investigation launched on Dec. 25 of last year shifted public attention towards irregularities in public tenders and major construction projects

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TOKİ faces lawsuits over poor quality housing

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The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) has been facing an increasing number of lawsuits due to the use of inferior materials and poor workmanship in its mass housing projects.

In the southern province of Adana, almost 6,000 lawsuits have been brought against TOKİ. In most of the cases, the courts ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and ordered TOKİ to compensate the homeowners for the problems in the houses it built.

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