| acc | Advanced-capitalist countries |
| akp | Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) |
| anap | Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party) |
| ar | Absolute rent |
| bat | Banks Association of Turkey (Türkiye Bankalar Birliği, tbb) |
| bis | Bank for International Settlements |
| bist | Borsa Istanbul (Istanbul Stock Exchange) |
| brsa | Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency |
| cbrt | Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
| ccfcc | Commodification, commodity form and commodity calculation |
| cdos | Collateralised debt obligations |
| ceecs | Central and Eastern European countries |
| cgf | Credit Guarantee Funds |
| chp | Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People’s Party) |
| cmb | Capital Markets Board |
| cpi | Consumer Price Index |
| dfls | Decrees having force of law |
| dr | Differential rent |
| eap | Emergency Action Plan |
| eoi | Export-oriented industrialisation |
| EU | European Union |
| fdi | Foreign direct investment |
| fed | Federal Reserve of the USA |
| fx | Foreign exchange |
| gdp | Gross domestic product |
| gds | Government debt securities |
| gfc | Global financial crisis |
| gyoder | Gayrimenkul ve Gayrimenkul Yatırım Ortaklığı Derneği (Real Estate and Real Estate Investment Trusts Association) |
| hdf | Housing development finance |
| hpi | House price index |
| ibc | Interest-bearing capital |
| imf | International Monetary Fund |
| imo | İnşaat Mühendisleri Odası (Chamber of Civil Engineers) |
| intes | İnşaat Sanayicileri İşveren Sendikası (Turkish Employers Association of Construction Industries) |
| ipos | Initial public offerings |
Independent regulatory agencies | |
| isi | Import substitution industrialisation |
| it | Inflation targeting |
| konutder | Konut Geliştiricileri ve Yatırımcıları Derneği (Association of Housing Developers and Investors) |
| lccs | Late-capitalist countries |
| lmc | Loanable money capital |
| ltadr | Law on the Transformation of Areas under Disaster Risk |
| ltv | Labour theory of value |
| ltv | Loan-to-value |
| m&a | Mergers and acquisitions |
| mbs | Mortgage-backed securities |
| mcb | Mortgage-covered bonds |
| mdc | Money dealing capital |
| mena | Middle East and North America |
| mhf | Mass Housing Fund |
| mpe | Marxist political economy |
| mr | Monopoly rent |
| musiad | Müstakil Sanayici ve İşadamları Derneği (Independent Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association) |
| nfcs | Non-financial companies |
| npls | Non-performing loans |
| occ | Organic composition of capital |
| pm | Prime Minister |
| ppa | Public Procurement Authority |
| ppi | Producer Price Index |
| ppl | Public Procurement Law |
| ppp | Public-private partnership |
| prr | Price-to-rent ratio |
| psbr | Public sector borrowing requirement |
| pwc | Post-Washington Consensus |
| qe | Quantitative easing |
| ras | Relative autonomy of the state |
| reifs | Real estate investment funds |
| reits | Real estate investment trusts |
| rp | Refah Partisi (Welfare Party) |
| sdif | Savings Deposit Insurance Fund |
| sees | State economic enterprises |
| sfis | Special Finance Institutions |
| shp | Structures of Housing Provision |
Social Insurance Fund | |
| smes | Small and medium-sized enterprises |
| soes | State-owned enterprises |
| SoP | Systems of Provision |
| ssi | Social Security Institution |
| tcc | Technical composition of capital |
| tl | Turkish Lira |
| tmb | Türkiye Müteahhitler Birliği (Turkish Constructors Association) |
| toki | Toplu Konut İdaresi Başkanlığı (Mass Housing Administration) |
| tsep | Transition to Strong Economy Program |
| TurkStat | Turkish Statistical Institute |
| tusiad | Türk Sanayicileri ve İşadamları Derneği (The Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association) |
| vlp | Value of labour-power |
| wb | World Bank |
| wc | Washington Consensus |