A GENERAL APPROACH TO LAND CONSOLIDATION STUDY IN TURKEY
Land consolidation study started early in 1961 in Turkey and a total 450 thousand hectares of land consolidation study was conducted since 2003. Land consolidation study for total 3 million 540 thousand hectares of land was completed between the year of 2003 and 2013. At the present time, land consolidation study for 2 million hectares of land is carried out within 55 provinces in Turkey. Grand total number of land that has to be consolidated is 14 million hectares in Turkey. The irrigation land among this total area is 8.5 million hectares. As in Turkey, 23.6% of the working population is employed in agriculture by the year of 2012. There are 21.5 million piece of agricultural land in Turkey and these lands belong to about 3.1 million enterprises. In this study, a statistical summary will be given for the land consolidation study that conducted in last 50 years in Turkey.