Lease fight locks up courts

in rentals The exorbitant rise was also reflected in the dates of the trials. It was proposed that one must wait a year for the first hearing date in the cases of rent fixing and rent evacuation, which used to occur a few months later. Lawyer Onur Cingil, who made a statement on the matter, stated that it took four years for the rent determination and rent eviction cases to be concluded. “There would be no separate lawyers dealing with such cases in law firms. Now almost every law firm has lawyers handling these cases,” Cingil said, “The reason for these exorbitant increases is that the country’s economy has gotten to a very bad point and purchasing power has declined. In Turkey, they try to inflict the burden of economic hardship on the tenants,” he said.

ADEQUATE RENTAL HOUSING

Using the expressions “Almost all tenants and landlords have problems with each other,” Cingil said, “I also filed a lawsuit against my landlord for the high rent increase.” The President of the Consumer Rights Association, Turhan Çakar, affirmed that the right to housing must be provided within the scope of the understanding of the social state, saying: “More than 83 million people in Turkey live below the hunger threshold and poverty. The average rent in Istanbul is 12-13 thousand TL. How are people on minimum wage or those who can’t find work going to cope with this? The State must design housing for these people, where adequate rents are determined. Or the state should pay the rent for these people,” he said.