Expropriation Law

Expropriation law covers the procedures and disputes arising from the administration’s taking of privately owned real estate in the public interest. Annulment actions against public interest decisions and expropriation acts, negotiations between the administration and the owner, actions for the determination of compensation and for registration of the property in the name of the administration, and claims for an increase in compensation form the core of this field.

Actions for de facto expropriation (kamulaştırmasız el atma) brought where real estate has been taken in fact without an expropriation procedure, claims concerning the remainder of partially expropriated real estate, the right of repurchase where expropriated real estate is not used for its intended purpose, and compensation disputes arising from the expropriation of easements also fall within this field. Expropriations for infrastructure investments such as roads, power transmission lines and dams find application together with zoning law in respect of real estate reserved for public services by zoning plans.