Between the State and Community Initiatives: The Architectonics of Participatory Housing in the Turkish Case

This study aims to examine how participatory housing production in Turkey is organized as a system in the context of the state and society through the housing cooperative examples presented so far. It should be noted that housing cooperatives have been considered for many years by the government and community initiatives as one of the useful solutions to meet the need for affordable housing and housing stock in Turkey. It is important to analyze the evolution of housing cooperatives in Turkey focuses on the role they have played in the systematic production of housing at both the state and community levels, as well as the way in which they have evolved in the course of time. In particular, the contribution of cooperatives in Turkey to the development of participatory motives in housing production will be discussed, and the processes of concrete examples that differ from conventional housing cooperatives will be examined in the context of the right to housing. In methodological terms, the research involved content analysis of primary sources (namely archived correspondence, plans, official state policy documents and interviews with users), and it is based on utilization of secondary sources (a literature review of published papers, and books).