What Is a Landlord?
Definition
Landlord (Kiraya Veren): The party to a lease who lets the tenant use a thing in return for rent; for a home, the owner who rents it out.
The landlord is the party to a lease who lets the tenant use a thing in return for rent; for a home, the owner who rents it out. In rent and withholding calculations the landlord is the receiving side: a cap on the increase limits what it may ask, and tax the tenant withholds reduces what it receives.
Where it appears in the formulas
Rent increase: maximum new rent = current rent × (1 + CPI 12-month average change). The rent increase calculator applies the cap of the renewal month.
Withholding: withholding = gross rent × rate. The tenant pays the landlord the gross rent less the withholding.
In Türkiye
The Turkish Code of Obligations no. 6098 defines the landlord (kiraya veren) in art. 299. The increase the landlord may ask in a renewed year is capped by the CPI 12-month average change: a 25,000 TRY rent renewed in September 2026 rises to at most 32,947.50 TRY. If the tenant must withhold tax, it pays an individual landlord the rent less 20% withholding (Income Tax Law art. 94): on a gross rent of 30,000 TRY a month, the tenant withholds 6,000 TRY and pays the landlord 24,000 TRY.