An architectural reading on the 2018 zoning peace

Regulations about construction in the world and Turkey are shaped by zoning laws. The purpose of the law is to provide regular settlement areas and housing suitable for environmental and health conditions. However, despite the law, illegal construction all over the world is a serious problem. With the aim of solving the problem of illegal construction, which increased during the formation of the cities, legal arrangements were made from time to time to legitimize the illegal structures. In Turkey, the latter which was named as Zoning Peace in 2018, 15 regulations have been made for the legitimization of illegal structures. The purpose of this study is to investigate "Zoning Peace" which was enacted in 2018 against to lawless and illegal housing in Turkey. In Turkey, 14 laws which are referred as "Zoning Peace" have been enacted in order to legitimate the illegal housing between 1948-1988. The first part of the study includes the purpose and method of the research. Then, it covers the common objectives of the "zoning amnesty" laws, which were enacted in order to prevent illegal construction prior to the 2018 Zoning Peace in its historical dimension, and includes the section where the differences between the purpose and content are evaluated periodically. The second part includes the reasons that make up the process, the objectives of the draft law, the application conditions and the reactions in the press. The last part includes the similarities and differences between the laws, which were described as "Zoning Peace" in the previous periods and these similarities and differences are discussed by taking into consideration some news in the press about the way "Zoning Peace" is presented to the public and how it was built. In these three main sections, news from various media organs were included in order to expand the discussion, and especially in the fourth section, how the Zoning Peace was constructed through the presentation to the public was discussed with a discourse analysis method. In the conclusion section, a brief evaluation of this law, which was defined and conceptualized differently with the emphasis on 'peace' instead of 'amnesty' in 2018, was made.