Construction Regulations and Challenges

They fine us for building shear walls.

They fine us for building shear walls.

The municipality has it marked as one meter.

I build a one-and-a-half-meter shear wall.

Then the guy comes and says you made it one and a half meters.

He says either you demolish it, or he fines all of your licensed property.

So, uh, is it important that we do the work here, uh, properly

and solidly, or that we make it earthquake-resistant or unsound?

What do I consider when I build my buildings?

During an earthquake, the building's main support

During an earthquake, the building's main support

I make with shear walls as much as I can.

I build shear walls around the elevator. I make the stairwells shear walls.

If there's a fire escape, I make that a shear wall. It wasn't in the plans.

I—I mean, because I… I have a family and children too.

When buying an apartment, I really want them to live in a peaceful, healthy place.

But excuse me, our municipality

the mayors...

If you build something or make even a slight expansion, they constantly ask

for donations. What kind of donations, for example?

The man says, "You've made a slight expansion in the construction."

He won't issue an occupancy permit. He says, "At the metropolitan municipality,

all the money..."

He says, "You will make a donation to us."

He says they make things difficult when issuing permits.

They disgusted me. I built ten blocks.

Ever since the earthquake, everyone from those ten blocks has been calling me.

They thank me so much. They say, "Mr. Nurettin,

in the buildings you constructed, we suffered no casualties."

They say, "My buildings shook, but everything around us collapsed, yet

we," they say, "suffered no casualties."

So, everyone is calling.

Nothing in their shear walls... For example, I would excavate, go underground and build the entire structure

with shear walls. If you don't donate, they won't do anything.

No, sir, it's a donation. It became a metropolitan city, and now there's no money at the municipality.

Apparently. So unless you make a donation, the municipality

makes things

difficult. I finally got angry, I even went there, it was 2018, in 2019

I filed a petition. I said, “Seal up

my unfinished construction, brother.” I said, “I stopped construction myself, I won't continue.”

Then we did the project in two thousand, uh, Seyfi, of course, during Mr. Seyfi's time.

2017, 2018.

Then it came with a file. I looked, and in 2022 they had issued a fine of three

trillion lira. For the construction I had sealed up myself.

What right do you have to fine that construction? I had it sealed up myself.