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THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE 2018 ANNUAL REPORT

◊ Cancelling, amending or implementing the decisions of Metropolitan Municipality,
and City Council
◊ Procedures relating to development plans (parceling)

◊ Permission procedures
◊ Infrastructure services

◊ Public transportation services
◊ Water services

◊ Financial services
◊ Urban transformation

◊ Parking services and ensuring traffic order and pedestrian safety
◊ Waste management
◊ Community policing

◊ Landscape
◊ Other matters relating to services provided by local governments

A case summary

The complainants stated that they were growing agricultural products in their land and their
activity was registered on the system built for farmers, which meant,, their agricultural activity
was clearly seen in the system and the region where their parcel was located was characterized as
agricultural land; however, the Municipality launched development/zoning plan in the region.
Therefore, they requested that these development plans be cancelled in the agricultural land.
After conducting examinations and research, it was found that the abovementioned land was
an arable land where intensive agricultural activities were being carried out, that the approval
of these development plans was against the applicable laws, and the rejection of the applicant’s
request to cancel them was not righteous. Considering all these and other factors, our
Institution issued a Recommendation to the Municipality to cancel the development plans.

n) Right to Property
Regarding the “Right to Property”, the Ombudsman Institution of Türkiye receives applications
concerning the followings;

◊ immovable of which the citizens claim ownership, but they are classified as forest,
meadow etc. and passed into the ownership of the Treasury,

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