Message from the Head of the Urban Development and Construction Bureau

When the Five-Year Growth and Transformation Plan was being planned, it was clearly stated that our economy could shift from an agricultural-based to an industrial-based economy. The idea that our economy would become an industrial-based economy does not mean that the growth of agriculture would cease, but rather that the share of industry would grow at a faster rate. When it comes to industrial growth, it is clearly stated that it requires focusing on small and micro industries that can mobilize a large workforce with minimal capital and land availability.

The industrialists who are emerging in small and micro sectors can contribute to building an industrial-based economy in the way we want, when they are properly provided with sufficient land for production and sales, and when they are able to adopt a strong developmental mindset that they will benefit only by producing a wide range of quality products and competing in the market, and when they are able to combat the rent-seeking mentality and practices that are seen every day.

In order to build the industry-led economy we want, ensure the growth of our country and the benefit of our people, and make our land administration transparent and in the public interest, we must fully implement our urban land lease proclamation, ensure that land is transferred only through the allocation and bidding system and is offered at its true value, and ensure that citizens can properly use their land that they have owned for centuries and that illegals are not allowed to continue occupying land illegally.

It is an inescapable fact that we must work to ensure continuous growth by providing land with adequate infrastructure, providing support and supervision based on its capabilities, and providing favorable market opportunities to the forces engaged in the industrial sector.

It is believed that the development army will be built in cities and is being built in small and medium-sized, educational and civil service institutions. In terms of our mission, if the civil service institution is built with a strong development army and is guided by this, it will cleanse itself of rent-seeking thinking and actions and will properly use the public resources (land) in its hands for development. It will properly monitor, support and make the economic actors effective. Therefore, our current mission is to build a strong development army and we must plan and implement it extensively for this success.