The pros and cons of building licensed offices of surveying and cadastre in Turkey
Kesikoglu, Mustafa Hayri & Mehmet Cete
The foundation of the Turkish land registry system dates back to 1847 while cadastre unit was added to the system in 1925. The Turkish General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (GDLRC) which is still in service and carries out land registration and cadastre throughout the country was founded in 1936. The GDLRC had carried out land registration and cadastre works without an organizational change through its district, province and county directorates of land registry and cadastre between 1936 and 2010. The breakpoint in the Turkish cadastre was 2004 when private sector involvement into cadastre was initiated to be implemented. The private sector dynamism speeded up the works and cadastral surveys had been completed in a short period of time in the country. This situation and new era trends of privatization forced the government to re-engineer organizational structure of the GDLRC and the Law on Licensed Offices of Surveying and Cadastre was enacted in 2005. 551 sub-districts of cadastre were described based on workloads of the existing cadastre offices and then an examination was carried out to license surveyors in 2009. The Licensed Offices of Surveying and Cadastre (LOSC) are in service today. They carry out all cadastre works in the country but their cadastre works to be registered are supervised by province offices of cadastre. Introduction of the LOSC system in the country generated some positive and negative effects for both public and private cadastral surveying sector and landowners. For example, county offices of the GDLRC were closed down.
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