The Turkish authorities began to think about a safe and sustainable urban development of the country for the next fifty to one hundred years. The Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urban Development has taken up planning that takes into account today's main threats (coronavirus and earthquakes) and implies a massive transition of Turkish cities to horizontal architecture, low-rise buildings and a large number of green spaces within the city.
How will the transition carried out? Next year, the Ministry will start issuing special certificates of free neighborhood to revive of the traditions of low-rise buildings in Turkey to the cities participating in the experiment. In each city, they will create pilot zones where only low-rise projects (up to five floors) will be allowed. In the very near future (by 2023) the provinces of Amasya and Mugla, Tekirdag and Canakkale, Burdur and Karabuk, Kyrshehir and Yalova, Kahramanmaras and Sinop, Ordu, Sanliurfa and Sivas will have become a platform for this experiment. The program will cover the entire territory of the country within the next decade.
In which cities and regions of Turkey can you buy an apartment in low-rise buildings today? In the Anatolian region, which is popular with foreign property buyers, Kargicak, Kestel and Oba are resort suburbs of Alanya where only low-rise buildings are allowed.