Regulation on the Protection and Use of Agricultural Lands
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This 2026 Turkish regulation implements the 2005 Soil Protection and Land Use Law (No. 5403). It establishes detailed procedures for classifying agricultural lands through soil surveys, determining when non-agricultural use is permitted, and protecting prime farmland. The regulation creates the TAD Portal as a centralized digital system for all applications and approvals. It defines what constitutes 'agricultural purpose structures' (such as greenhouses, barns, storage facilities, and certain renewable energy installations attached to farms) that do not require full land-use integrity checks. Non-agricultural use requests must demonstrate no viable alternative sites, no disruption to agricultural land integrity, and no conflict with irrigation or drinking water basin projects. The regulation sets specific size thresholds for classifying land types and restricts changes to registered orchard land status for five years.
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Key Changes
- Establishes TAD Portal as mandatory centralized digital platform for all agricultural land use applications and soil survey submissions
- Defines specific agricultural-purpose structures (greenhouses, mandıra, un değirmeni, bağ evi, certain GES) exempt from agricultural land integrity requirement
- Sets size thresholds: local marginal lands under 2 ha treated as same class as surrounding land; lands under 0.5 ha orchards or 0.3 ha greenhouses classified as marginal
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Obligations
What this law requires
All agricultural land use applications and approvals must be submitted and managed through the TAD Portal (Tarım Arazileri Değerlendirme ve Bilgilendirme Sistemi), a centralized digital system for land and soil surveys, evaluations, queries, and archiving.
Agricultural purpose structure applicants must submit a notarized commitment letter (Ek-7), technical project report (Ek-16), and for agricultural solar installations, a notarized covenant (Ek-14) and authorization letter (Ek-17) to provincial agricultural directorates.
Non-agricultural land use requests must demonstrate that no viable alternative sites exist, that the use will not disrupt agricultural land integrity, and that it does not conflict with irrigation or drinking water basin projects.
Permitted agricultural structures must be constructed in accordance with their approved project, may not be used for non-agricultural purposes, may not be subdivided except through expropriation, and may not be converted to buildable land; violations result in permit cancellation.
The approved site plan must be reported to the building permit authority alongside the authorization letter; any identified non-agricultural use will result in permit cancellation.