A WELSH-born woman, who rubbed shoulders with late-1950 London glitterati before relocating to live among Istanbul’s ‘aristocrats’, has provided an extraordinary and evocative insight into her life. “Lady Who, Memoirs of a not so ordinary life in Turkey” is a remarkable 60-year memoir from Joan Kim Erkan. ‘Kim’ means ‘Who” in Turkish. Arriving on February…
Read MoreOFFICIAL data reveals property sales to foreigners in Turkey rose 22.2 percent year-on-year in 2017. “In house sales to foreigners, İstanbul was the number one province with 8,182 sales in 2017,” TurkStat said. The Mediterranean resort city of Antalya came in number two, with 4,707 sales to foreigners, followed by Bursa and Yalova. TurkStat data…
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BRITISH dad – Toby Robyns – held in Turkey for an ancient coin cache found in his hand luggage – is today (Tues Oct 3) spending his first day back in the UK with his family. The father-of-five, of Southwick, West Sussex, was released from prison in Mugla, near Bodrum, yesterday (Monday). He was put…
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UPON living in Turkey for the last 11 years, Irish academician Angela Burns has created three-dimensional postcards that depict Turkish culture for foreigners. An academician at the Fine Arts and Design Faculty of İzmir Economical University (İEÜ), Burns has incorporated many aspects of Turkey’s cultural heritage, ranging from the traditional Turkish breakfast to the Grand…
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IT’S been a long time in coming – but new foreign buyers in certain Turkish provinces will now be able to get their property deeds (TAPUs) in Turkey on the same day of purchase. It puts the foreign property buyer on the same standing as that of a Turk – meaning that they can finally buy…
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A BRITISH dad has been detained in prison after pocketing 13 ancient coins he found snorkelling on holiday near Bodrum. Ambulance driver Toby Robyns, 52, Southwick, West Sussex, was arrested in front of his horrified family at Bodrum Airport as they prepared to fly home. Airport staff said the coins were historical artefacts. The father…
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HOUSE sales in Turkey saw a decline in June, although sales to foreigners soared by nearly 25 percent, official data showed on July 24. According to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), some 97,579 units of properties were sold in June across the country with an 8.1 percent of year-on-year decline. A total of…
Read MoreNEW regulations to grant expedited citizenship to foreign investors in Turkey will be implemented soon, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said. Investors eligible for citizenship will include those who have made fixed investments, those who have bought real estate at a certain value and retain it for at least three years, those who provide…
Read MoreTURKEY is to retain daylight saving time – meaning it will do away with turning the clocks backwards and forwards an hour in October and April. Expats and Turkish residents will no longer ‘fall back’ in October after a decree regarding daylight saving time (DST) all year round in Turkey was published on the Official…
Read MoreThe below was first published in the MAGazette, a fortnightly legal update newsletter produced by Moroğlu Arseven, a Turkish legal firm. TURKEY has introduced new principles and procedures regarding work permits for foreigners, as well as exemptions. Existing uncertainties about work permit requirements for company directors have been clarified and a new “Turquoise Card” system is…
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