Ministry of Construction and Settlement (Turkish: İmar ve İskan Bakanlığı) was a government ministry office in Turkey.
The refugees would be provided with new possessions totaling the ones they had left behind.
[1] Listing the possessions of the Orthodox people who left Turkey and assigning them to the Moslem people from Greece was a formidable task for the bureaucracy of the newly established Turkey and a separate ministry was formed to solve the problems of the exchange and settlement on 30 October 1923.
However, in the 1950s during the large scale migration from the villages to cities the ministry was reestablished with the name the Ministry of Construction and Settlement.
The ministry was established in the 23rd government of Turkey[4] and was merged to the Ministry of Public Works in the 45th government[5] i.e., it was effective between 25 November 1957 – 13 December 1983.