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Originally posted by Diverbaz 1
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albaman, i agree with your first sentence, does seem a bit drastic to return to the UK just because a dog will not stop barking!!
But for albaman it is not just the dogs, he has only lived here for a few months and every time (it seems) he posts on here, it is to try and change something, his mangement of the complex, the rules regarding aquiring vehicles, now the dogs. This is Turkey, it is the turks country, they will do things their way, not how we want because we come from the UK. Even the dogs are a fact of life, in Fethiye, Calis, Uzumlu Ovacik, the turks seem to put up with it, in THEIR country. We have the dogs barking around us the cocks crowing at all hours, the call to prayer from 3 mosques within hearing distance, after a while you just don't seem to hear them any more, like living on a main road in the UK, I don't suppose the turks living in the UK try and stop the traffic at night so they can sleep.
Baz,
Your philosophy is the kind of thinking that would have kept us living in caves!
The facts:
Our Site Manager has not had a meeting with residents for over a year.
He still refuses to have a meeting.
He will not produce evidence of expenditure.
He has allowed people to not pay site fees for years.
We have a site flooding problem that the estate agent didn't tell us about & the site mgr will do nothing about it. When I, at my own expense, paid to have my path raised & had work done to divert the water away his family decided that they would use my path to save tramping through the floods that he will not deal with.
I paid for the communal water pump to be repaired as he would not have it fixed.
I have informed him that I will not pay anything until he is accountable to the residents including me.
So Baz, is this acceptable management in Turkey or anywhere else in the world?
It seems that whatever happens, no matter how sad, unfair, or unjust it is, there are those simple minded people who will trawl out the "This is Turkey, live with it or go back to the UK." nonsense!
The vehicle registration system was a mess & took a long time to sort out. I still think it leaves open the opportunity for the authorities to pick on foreigners for offenses that go unchallenged if you have a Turkish number plate.
To summarize: I love Turkey & most Turkish people. I do not want the culture, customs, etc to change I just want a level playing field for all,