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Foreign investors stake their claim
Posted on Sunday, October 25 @ 21:36:55 CDT by editor
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A GROUP of British families has ‘seized’ a Didim housing complex in a landmark ruling in Turkey as they battle to secure their title deeds.
The court ruling, focused on the Golden Beach Complex, at Imbat, could now open the floodgates for other foreign investors across Turkey in their bid to get title deeds on the properties they own.
Last Friday, a judge at Didim Civil Court granted a temporary injunction on behalf of 41 families to ‘freeze’ the land on which the Didim Design Group complex is built on from being transferred to a third party by landowner Ahmet Akyel.
Lawyer Burcu Orhan, who is representing the families, was forced into issuing the injunction after lengthy amicable attempts to get the title deeds secured from Akyel failed.
The 41 families have spent between £50,000 and £75,000 – an estimated total of about £2.5 million - on apartments on the complex which was finished by Didim Design Group 18 months ago.
Ms Orhan, an attorney in law and founding partner of London Legal International, representing the families, said some families had been waiting in excess of two years for their title deeds. |  |
She said: “I began representing these families about a year ago and despite all efforts to negotiate with the landowner for their title deeds in an amicable manner, the discussions failed.
“The contracts the investors signed with the developer between 2006 and 2007 would not officially protect them under Turkish law and there was a very high likelihood that they would be left with nothing, such as homes and life-savings, if the potential threat of the transfer of the land to a third party was carried through.
“After negotiations stalled with the landowner and having considered our position, we were forced to obtain a temporary injunction on the families’ behalf which essentially freezes the land from being passed to a third party.”
She added: “In doing so, we are simply protecting our clients’ investment and will now help all sides focus on securing the title deeds for the families we represent.
“If we hadn’t acted, it would have put our clients in a very vulnerable position in pursuing their title deeds. I very much hope that this injunction will now lead to the landowner issuing the deeds.”
The resumption of the court case is scheduled for January 4, 2010.
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by Summerbreeze on Monday, October 26 @ 02:52:31 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Well done Burcu Orhan. Why could lawyers in didum not do this for their clients. |
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by martyd on Monday, October 26 @ 09:26:53 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | This is starting to become a lot clearer now . Is it a coincedence that Ahmet Akyel is also the owner of Golden beach Villas ?????????????
I think not !!!!!!
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by maggimay on Monday, October 26 @ 09:53:05 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | well done ms orhan.Lets hope its a positive step to help these people in the future, good luck |
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by EstherMofet on Monday, October 26 @ 09:54:25 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Well.
At last the truth will come out. I have been banging on about this injustice on Golden Beach Complex for over twelve months. Only to be told to shut up and called all sorts of names and have lies told about me . I gave details to Voices Newspaper on October 29/2008 expressing my concerns about being ripped off.
I reported this scandal to the Jandarma. I have posted on numerous websites warning about this Scandal and have been barred by many website owners for telling the truth. Well done to Solicitor Burcu Orhan from London Legal International Solicitors for having the guts to stand and put the truth forward.The truth is about to come out about this Complex.
Brian, "who;s the lunatic now" ?
A Very Concerned Buyer On Golden Beach Complex.
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by ElizaMay on Monday, October 26 @ 10:19:34 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I appreciate the picture is not Golden Beach villas butis the story about it. Is this the Kubilay Atmaca story or is it a different one |
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by Astonished on Tuesday, October 27 @ 16:11:26 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | I thought people were taking action against Kubilay in Turkey ? ? ?
It must be doing a lot of good as I saw him in yet another mobile phone shop in Gumbet !!!
Perhaps Ms Orhan would be a better solicitor than the one they have now !
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by honey on Monday, October 26 @ 13:43:10 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Well done Burcu Orhan. It has taken someone like you to get something done here in Altinkum/Didim. If it had been left to the local legal profession then im afraid everyone would have lost everything.
You are the Cherie Blair of Altinkum/Didim and hopefully the fraudsters will think twice now before swindling any more people. |
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by amber on Tuesday, October 27 @ 13:06:13 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Congratulations to Ms Orhan for taking on the case and looking after the interests of her clients. So many people have taken cases and got nowhere because of the loopholes in Turkish law that are continually abused in favour of Turkish agents, builders and Landowners. It makes one wonder why it has taken a London based lawyer to make headway, when so many Didim based lawyers seem to accept payment for cases and achieve so little in comparison. If Didim’s lawyers had taken similar action these fraudulent practices would have been stopped in their tracks. Banks wouldn’t have been able to sell on properties that had been paid for in full, furnished and lived in, and those withholding tapu’s for their own financial gain would not have been able to raise money on property/land that they had already sold.
The more people that speak out will eventually make the government realise how big this problem is, and that people are not going to stand back and let it happen.
By using platforms such as Voices Newspaper, forums and the Internet those affected by Turkish property scams are highlighting their plight, making purchasers question their own circumstances and hopefully stopping anyone else finding themselves in a similar situation.
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by Scarlet on Tuesday, October 27 @ 15:27:05 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Tooth Fairy,
I hope you have informed the PSNI and the Turkish authorities of this I have during the last year been taking all the information that has been on the various web sites to the relevant authorities. Which I have found to be the best possible route.
Many thanks |
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by Scarlet on Monday, October 26 @ 14:09:09 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | No its not Golden Beach Villas but Akyel owned all the land, both for the Golden Beach Complex and the Golden Beach Villa complex. They are next door to each other - and thankyou Esther for having the guts to stand up and tell the truth just a pity others dont do the same. Then perhaps we would all get our money back or at least justice would be done.
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by snail on Tuesday, October 27 @ 00:35:17 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | This is just one of many complexes with the same problems around the Altinkum area without the buyers being issued with tapu's.
Here is another good example of what is happening to the buyers that haven't recieved their tapu's.lf you haven't recieved your tapu's as promised,then check it out as to why you haven't been given the legal document and then take the appropiate action immediately. |
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by ElizaMay on Tuesday, October 27 @ 04:23:58 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Scarlet,
Thanks so much for explaining. Does this mean that Golden Beach villas could be seized from him also. Also where does this leave admet ahmel in relation to the part he must have played in golden beach saga. |
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by Scarlet on Wednesday, October 28 @ 12:24:13 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) |
To answer the question :-
Kubilay is out of prison and back behind the counter of the phone shop in Gumbet. Probably laughing at the shenanigans that have been going on. |
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Re: Foreign investors stake their claim (Score: 1)
by martyd on Friday, October 30 @ 18:52:26 CDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | " Brian, "who;s the lunatic now" ? "
Has the greengrocer been a naughty boy again ?
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