The needs for improvement in Turkish land administration system : lessons learned from German case
Cete, Mehmet, Holger Magel and Tahsin Yomralioglu
Land is basic place of human activities. Therefore, humankind has close relationship with land in most part of his life. The global drivers like sustainable development, globalization, urbanization, economic reform and technology, on the other hand, make this relationship dynamic. So, there is need for effective management of the relationship. This duty could only be succeeded by effective land administration systems. In this context, having appropriate land administration systems and sustaining them in contemporary approach is very important in development of societies. In this paper, it is aimed to evaluate efficiency of present Turkish land administration system and to provide some proposals for better administration of it. The paper, firstly, evaluates efficiency of current Turkish land registration, cadastre, topographical mapping, and real estate valuation systems. In this evaluation, the interviews carried out with Turkish land administration experts as well as literature review play main role. As a result of the evaluation, it is obviously defined that there are some issues requiring new solutions in land registry and cadastral system, and in topographical mapping system of Turkey. Besides, the need for reform in the real estate valuation system both in legal and organizational perspectives is underlined. At the second part of the paper, it is aimed to examine a good operating land administration system and to get some experiences for Turkish case. In this context, having a sound land administration background, Germany is determined as case study country. Then, land registration, cadastre, topographical mapping and real estate valuation system of Germany are examined. The interviews carried out with the experts of German land registration, cadastre and valuation are the core component in this research. At the end, some recommendations are submitted to improve Turkish land administration system.
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