Giant Penalty for Those Who Don’t Rent a House for Male Students

Türkiye across the house rents it’s like flying. When this is the case, especially students may have serious problems in finding a place to live. In addition, not only high rents, but also the fact that landlords prefer tenants complicates the situation.

Here is an example of this happening today. A young man going to university couldn’t keep it even though he liked a house he saw on an unnamed website. According to the information received, the reason for this is that the owner of the house male student he didn’t want to.

A total of 102 thousand TL fines were imposed on the landlord, real estate agent and website due to gender discrimination.

MFK, who will go to an unnamed city to continue his education, called the real estate agent upon an advertisement he saw. The real estate agent, on the other hand, stated that the owner of the house wanted to rent the house only to female students. Also, in the title of the ad, “3+1 clean mezzanine flat suitable for family, female students” was also stated.

After these experiences, MFK) said that there was gender discrimination when renting the house. To the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Türkiye (TİHEK) applied. Stating that the situation is against the prohibition of discrimination, the young person also stated that he could not communicate with the interlocutor.

After evaluating the screenshots and other information presented, TİHEK found the claim of the university student justified and sentenced the landlord, real estate agent and website to penalties. The institution stating that the house is not rented due to gender, 6,000 to the landlord and real estate agent, on the website that does not interfere with the advertisement 89 thousand 571 TL fined him.