Is It Compulsory To Use Shelter In Apartment Buildings?

The shelter regulation was published in the Official Gazette numbered 19910 on August 25, 1988 regarding the shelter places built in order to protect the living and non-living assets necessary for the survival of people from natural disasters and the continuation of the war power of the country.
On December 31, 2010, the Regulation on Amending the Regulation on Shelter was published in the Official Gazette No. 27802.
The provisions of the said Apartment shelter legislation are given below.
New shelter law;
REGULATION ON THE AMENDMENTS TO THE REFUGEE REGULATION

ARTICLE 1 – Subparagraph (a) of the first paragraph of Article 5 of the Shelter Regulation published in the Official Gazette dated 25/8/1988 and numbered 19910 has been changed as follows.
‘a) Private shelters: If it cannot be done in the lowest basement floors or in the grounded parts of the private or public buildings and facilities or in the building, if there is no provision in the implementation zoning plan or plan, it is published in the Official Gazette dated 2/11/1985 and numbered 18916 They are fallout shelters built in order to protect against the effects of radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare agents, weakened pressure and heat effects of nuclear weapons and fragmentation effects of conventional weapons, provided that they are not contrary to the building approach distance determined by the Planned Areas Type Zoning Regulation.

ARTICLE 2 – The second paragraph of item (b) of the first paragraph of Article 6 of the same Regulation has been changed as follows. “Sprinkle shelters are built primarily in the lowest basement floors or in the grounded parts of private or public buildings and facilities or inside the building. If it is not possible, the implementation is done in the gardens, above ground or completely or partially underground, depending on the structure of the soil, provided that it is not contrary to the building approach distance determined by the Planned Areas Type Zoning Regulation. However, on the condition that it is completely under the ground, shelters can be built within the approach distances of the side and backyard building except the road fronts of the parcel, provided that it does not affect the buildings in the adjacent parcel in any way. ‘

ARTICLE 3 – Article 7 of the same Regulation has been changed as follows.
‘ARTICLE 7 – Fallout shelters are made in all kinds of facilities and buildings, with the exceptions specified in this article.
In the approved building license annex architectural Project.
a) Residential buildings with 12 or less independent sections,
b) Non-residential buildings with an area of less than 1500 m2 subject to the equivalent calculation,
c) The number of residential-use independent sections is 12 or less, and the residential buildings with less than 1500 m2 of area subject to