The problems and solution proposals in pipeline expropriation applications

Required lands must be public property or be expropriated to make public services actual such as power transmission line projects, petroleum pipeline projects, train ways and highways. However, public often doesn't have required lands to meet needed size and suitability for these projects. Publication of nonpublic immovable properties needed for these services can be done by expropriation process limiting the property right which is under constitutional guarantee. The implementation of expropriation studies is a process that requires long and detailed procedures. In the expropriation process, many problems are encountered in legal, economic and technical fields. To carry out the public services in a timely and economic way, it is highly important to detect and solve these problems. In this study, technical, economic and legal problems have been scrutinised encountered during the pipeline expropriation studies in the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) project, error resources have been researched and suggestions for these problems have been introduced. As a result of this study, it has been seen that the errors caused by the cadastral sheets produced by the old technology, problems encountered in the price determination of immovable properties and the lacks in the legal regulations negatively affect the expropriation activities. For expropriation activities not to be affected by these negativities, in general, technically, the formation of the numerical bases in a single system, the reassessment of the principles and procedures about land valuation, fulfillment of legal gaps and shortcomings in legally are required.