Exiled by high rents: A growing number of people are getting priced out of İstanbul

Same old buildings, brave new prices. © Diego Cupolo

İSTANBUL – In 2020, Emirhan Yılmaz was living in a single-room apartment in Maltepe, İstanbul. His rent was 500 TL a month and his salary as a shipyard worker was about 10,000 TL.

“But now, even if I rent with three or four other roommates, the cost per person would be 10,000 liras,” Yılmaz said, adding…