5 |
EVERYTHING ABOUT A TAPU (TITLE DEEDS) |
5.1 |
What
is a TAPU? What does it look like? |
A TAPU is
an official document which shows you have ownership
rights over the real estate. The owner's full name and
photograph, and detailed information on the asset appear
on this document.
Please
click here
or on image for a sample TAPU document (empty), which is
called Tapu Senedi.
5.2 |
Meaning of the terms on a TAPU |
The meanings of the
terms appearing on a TAPU are as follows:
|
Term
|
Meaning |
| Ana Gayrimenkulun: |
~Description, location and cadastral coordinates
of the main land |
|
Ili: |
Province |
|
Ilçesi: |
Borough, district or town |
|
Mahallesi: |
Parish, quarter |
|
Köyü: |
Village |
|
Sokagi: |
Street, avenue |
|
Mevkii: |
Place |
|
Pafta
No: |
Pafta Number |
|
Ada No: |
Plot Number |
|
Parsel
No: |
Parcel Number |
|
Niteligi: |
Feature (whether it is a building land,
vacant land, or cultivated land...) |
|
Yüzölçümü: |
Area/size of the land
(summation of the figures shown for the three
pameters below should add up to the total size
of the main land) |
|
Ha: |
Hectare
(=10.000m²=2,47 acres) |
|
m²: |
Meter square |
|
dm²: |
Decimeter square |
|
KAT
MÜLKIYETI: |
Ownership of
the independent unit which is ready to use
(flat, house, office etc built on the main land) |
|
KAT IRTIFAKI: |
Ownership of
the independent unit which is not ready for use
yet (either because of an on-going
development/construction work or due to the fact
that usage permit from the municipality has not
been gathered yet) |
|
DEVRE MÜLK: |
Fractional/timed ownership (the independent unit is
owned just for a certain period of a year)
|
|
Bagimsiz Bölüm: |
~Information about the Independent Unit (the
property subject to the use such as a flat,
house, etc) on the main land |
|
Satis Bedeli: |
Actual purchase price of the property (Make sure that
actual amount is written in this section.
Otherwise, you may encounter very serious legal
problems including being accused of
money-laundering and/or be subject to severe
financial penalties due to a tax evasion. Please
do not forget the collect the documents to
justify that you exactly paid this amount to the
seller) |
|
Arsa
Payi: |
Land share
(what proportion of the land belongs to the
independent unit) |
|
Blok No: |
Block
(Building, Mansion, Lodge, Court, House) Number |
|
Kat No: |
Floor No. |
|
Bagimsiz Blm
No: |
Independent Unit Number |
|
Edinme Sebebi: |
The reason
why the property is being acquired (From whom to
whom the property has been sold and any other
relevant explanation) |
|
Sahibi: |
Name(s) of the current
owner(s)
|
|
|
(More than
one person can own the same property. In this
case, their respective shares are to be shown in
this section. The respective shares are
illustrated in terms of the proportion of the
main land.
For
example, suppose that a flat which possess the
ownership of 10/456 of the main land on which
the complex is based and that the flat is to be
owned by three person named AB, CD, and EF with
shares of 20%, 30%, and 50%, respectively. Then,
these names and their respective shares are
shown on TAPU as follows:
AB: ab: 2/456 hisse,
CD:
cd: 3/456 hisse,
EF:
ef: 5/456 hisse,
where the
word ‘hisse’ means
‘share’ and ‘ab’, ‘cd’,
and ‘ef’ are the names
of fathers of those persons) |
The remaining sections
at the bottom of the TAPU are for official use only.
The TAPU has to be
sealed with a stamp in the central part at the
bottom and this section has to be signed by a TAPU
officer.
The picture(s) of all
owner(s) is (are) to be suffixed to the top-right of
the TAPU, it (they) has (have) to be sealed with a
stamp and signed by the TAPU officer mentioned above
5.3 |
How
to check the details? |
Whether a property does
belong to a person can be checked through the
pictures and names appearing on the TAPU. If the
TAPU is a Xerox copy, then make sure it has been
ratified by a notary public. Otherwise, a fake TAPU
might have been handed over to you. With regards to
the names, you can ask for the ID card of the
seller(s) and compare the TAPU to the ID card in
terms of names.
Whether cadastral/map
coordinates on a TAPU are genuine can be double
checked by means of a private cadastral or a civil
engineering bureau.
Furthermore, one can
ask the TAPU office to put an annotation (Serh) on
the TAPU so as to specifically prohibit an unwanted
transaction regarding the ownership. Unless the
conditions described in the annotation are not met,
the property can neither be sold out nor transferred
into the names of third parties.
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