14.10.2025 17:02
President Erdoğan announced the details of the new steps the government will take regarding exorbitant rents. Erdoğan stated, "We are implementing a very important project regarding the still high rents. From now on, the state will handle rent planning. We will not allow citizens to be exploited by exorbitant rents. We will build 500,000 units in 81 provinces and rent these homes at affordable prices through the state."
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced a new social housing project to be implemented by the state against high rents and housing prices during his speech at the Economic Affairs Training Program.
Erdoğan stated, "From now on, the state will plan the rents. We will not allow citizens to be exploited with exorbitant rents. We will build 500,000 social housing units in 81 provinces and rent these houses at affordable prices through the state," he said.
Erdoğan also announced that special quotas would be allocated in the project for the families of martyrs, veterans, retirees, families with three children, and disabled citizens.
"WE MUST SAY THAT INFLATION HAS CEASED TO BE A SOURCE OF CONCERN IN MANY PLACES"
Highlights from Erdoğan's statements are as follows:
"For 24 years, I find the role of our Economic Affairs Presidency very important as a political movement that has always walked with the guidance of the nation, looking at the same horizon as the nation, and never deviating from the nation's course. You are our eyes and ears in the field. We direct our party policies and the steps we take as a government with the information we receive from you. Our principle has never changed in 24 years.
There can be no confrontation with the nation. No work is done without the consent of the nation. Everything we have done so far has been done with this sensitivity. We have acted with an approach that consults at every level, not one that dictates from above like others. We will continue to do politics along the same line from now on.
We are a team that does not leave words on the shelf or in speeches. Just as it suits us, we think only of Turkey, fight for Turkey's interests, and build Turkey's future.
The global economy has not yet recovered from the shocks it experienced due to the coronavirus pandemic. The broken links in the trade chain have not yet been fully repaired. The issue of inflation, which saw peaks not seen in the last 60-70 years, along with production and employment, continues to trouble many countries. We cannot say that inflation has ceased to be a source of concern in many places. Even countries that have made some progress in combating inflation do not let their guard down. The tariff tensions between the US and China create additional pressure on the global economy. As Turkey, in such an atmosphere, we are trying to keep our country away from conflicts, heal the wounds of the February 6 disaster, and reach our economic goals.
"IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO REBUILD GAZA"
Yesterday, we took an important step towards stopping the genocide in Gaza. As leaders, we demonstrated a strong will in Egypt. Today, although with a heavy heart, the faces of children in Gaza are smiling. Aid workers are expressing their gratitude. Mothers can send their children out into the streets without fear for the first time in two years. Just seeing these things is a blessing for us.
Those innocent children, whose mother, father, and siblings were brutally murdered before their eyes, will feel the pain of this for the rest of their lives. Rebuilding Gaza will take years. There is a construction period for the event, and there is a revival period. Construction and revival. Turkey has an important task here. Of course, we will discuss this together with the Gulf countries, especially the US, and decide what steps we will take in this regard.
After two years of pain, we find it very valuable to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. We need to heal the wounds of Palestine together and rebuild Gaza. As Turkey, we will work for this and will follow every stage of the process with this understanding. Our desire is for the meaningful step taken yesterday to be crowned with a lasting and just peace. Undoubtedly, the only way to achieve this is to establish a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital based on the 1967 borders. I wholeheartedly believe that we will see those beautiful days as well.
"THE STATE WILL PLAN THE RENT ISSUE"
We have started to see the effects of the economic program we implemented after the 2023 elections. We have achieved significant results in many areas, especially inflation. There is still a long way to go. Our top priority is to solve the problem of the cost of living at its root. Despite obstacles beyond our control, such as drought, agricultural frost, and regional crises, we are determined to reach our goals. We are also implementing a very important project regarding the still high rents and housing prices. From now on, the state will plan the rental process. We will not allow citizens to come and rent out properties, exploiting citizens with high rents; instead, the state will rent these social housing units itself and we will sincerely initiate an affordable rental process. With this effort, we will build a total of 500,000 social housing units in all 81 provinces. In our project, we will allocate special quotas for the families of martyrs and veterans, retirees, families with three children, and disabled citizens.
We will rent some of the social housing to our citizens under favorable conditions, providing a breath of fresh air to low-income families. Our housing project will strengthen our hand not only in social policies but also in the fight against inflation, contributing to our goal of single-digit inflation.
"CHP IS NOT BEING MANAGED"
When the corruption operations began, they invented something called a boycott to save the pickpockets who had settled in the public treasury from justice. They did everything from booing brands at their rallies to targeting them. However, whatever they did, they were unsuccessful. Their calls for boycott always backfired. Their aim was to threaten national brands and extort them. Our nation has started to confuse whether these are political parties or mafias.
Under Mr. Özel's leadership, the CHP is gradually losing its identity as a political party. I have said it before, the CHP is not being managed; it is drifting here and there like a ship with a locked steering wheel. The captain does not care about either the ship or the passengers.
REACTION TO ÖZEL'S MEETING IN BRUSSELS
They have never been able to give up their habit of complaining about their own country to foreigners. They were supposed to act as a Turkish party, not as the main opposition party during their visits to other countries, but they did not even keep that promise. The last visit of the CHP Chairman was a disaster. I say this independently of myself; having the president of this country booed by his comrades in Western capitals is not politics, nor is it opposition in any way.
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