Evaluation of land reform policies in Turkey

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 61 - 67, 01.06.2017

Tayfun Çay , Nuh Toklu Ömür Esen

https://doi.org/10.26833/ijeg.297223

Cited By: 4

Abstract

Turkey’s agricultural policies of the European Union, World Bank, International Monetary Fund on a global scale, such as areas of activity by the organizations and groups, referral is made. Since the beginning of the Republic of Turkey, land reform has been different application. “On June the 11th 1945, a Law to Provide Farmers with Land enumerated 4753, Land and Agrarian Reform Law dated 1973 and Enumerated 1757, Agrarian Reform Law Regarding Land Regulations in Irrigation Areas, Land Protection & Land Use Law enumerated as 5403/5578” applications have handled in within Turkey land reform. In region of the land reform applied, had been a lot of problem for example, lack of credit, absence of qualified personnel for giving information, etc. and had not gotten efficiency to expected performance and successed expectancy. In this study, land reform, according to the particular application in the world have studied the similarities and differences. A viable model for our country's land reform was formed.

Keywords

Land reform, land regulation, Land use, use of rural land

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