Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Koca Calis & Ciftlik Discussion Forum => Topic started by: terrie on July 22, 2013, 09:47:01 AM
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Break in Saturday ,villa opposite mavi Kent,people only been there 24hrs,approx 10pm,while they were out
APparently the people were advised to check all windows and door locks,as a neighbours villa had been broken into,about two weeks before
Double French doors were kicked in,money I pad,kindle taken,and safe containing passports etc
Jandarma attended,including finger print people
Apparently there was a suspicious car arround,silver /grey with blacked out windows,two men and a lady,smartly dressed
On speaking to Turkish neighbours they said they had heard of a big white car driving arround suspiciously,only info given! (but that rang a bell! Wasn't there reports last year about break ins and a large white car being around at the times?
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They seem to target those who have just arrived. How do they know this? Do they follow them home from the bars etc or (and I'm not being funny here) do they just follow those who have no sun tan so have obviously just arrived?
Seems organised as the new arrivals obviously have more cash around the house.
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I used to suspect a number of the drivers who worked for the transfer companies had a hand in this. It's nearly always new arrivals who will be loaded with holiday spends.
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It can be builders who have been doing work swimminig pool people ,it can be anyone,and not the normal ones going round they only take cash no come back on that .
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Our turkısh neıghbours were burgled and had theır vılla ransacked a whıle back so not only holıday makers.I thınk they note the empty villas then watch to see when someone comes ın and pounce. Suspıcıous whıte car been around our area for a whıle. It drıves slowly round the roads. Wıll try and get the number plate.
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On some of the break ins we have heard about, I pads have been taken,
Now I'm not a computer nerd but I do know,there is an app(and probably more)that you can install when you purchase your I pads,that if stolen or lost you can gps track it,and even turn on the cameras,to see who is using it
The one I know about is called www.preyproject.com
If you haven't got one installed ,might be worth doing,and it's FREE
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I drove around that entire area in my white Fiat Palio Weekend, quite slowly, as I am a very careful driver. Does that make me a suspect?? >:(
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If you're driving a white Fiat Palio Gordy it just makes you a bigger *anker than I thought you were. ;)
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I find this so scary! Do iron grills on windows and doors protect you?
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to-night as I was returning to my house near the KAAN hotel, I saw a Tofas Estate slowly cruising around our area. i went in to the house to get my car keys but by the time I got out again it had disappeared. if I see it again I will get its reg number and put it on the forum so people can keep their eyes open. it may be an innocent motorist but the time (0030hrs) and the area make me think otherwise
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Snowtop, YOU were out at that time of the night, half past twelve, so why shouldn't the Tofas driver have been out at that time also ?? ???
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Quote (Snowtop, YOU were out at that time of the night, half past twelve, so why shouldn't the Tofas driver have been out at that time also ?????)
Read my post properly before replying please!!
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I find this so scary! Do iron grills on windows and doors protect you?
Short answer is no, but a big deterrent, bars can be cut/bent/wretched off, but that means more noise and hence more chance of attracting attention. Think about it if given two properties one with grills, one without, which would you choose? Equally alarm boxes, either real of false, gives no guarentee, to these people you are living in millioners row, and you will have so much stuff they can take its worth the chance. Be sensible dont leave stuff out in view, put cameras, ipads etc under cushions, in cupboards, looking for items takes time and again increases the theives chances of getting caught.
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I was told by a policeman friend that a burglar will access any house he wants to. However, given the choice of a house with an alarm outside, outside lights and bars on the windows, or one next door with no such refinements. The burglar will take the easy option. So, the more objects you put in the burglar's way the better your chances are of not being robbed.
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I wonder where the safes are ın propertıes. I have seen some ın wardrobes and cupboards and not bolted down. They come wıth bolts so why don't they get bolted down to a concrete floor. I am also amazed at the ammount of technologıcal equıpment people brıng on holıdays. All members of the family seem to have kındles,Nıntendos , cameras, iphones ,MP4 ect ect.You see them at the restaurants ,on boats ect all tappıng away and no conversatıon. One waiter saıd ıt took hım ages to get a chıld to tell the parents what she wanted to eat as she was busy sendıng texts and would not read the menu till she had finished .Do they need all thıs technology to have a good holiday.
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These things aren't new. On holiday it takes a waiter ages to get my order because we haven't stopped talking yet :)
But yes, the amount of technology taken on holiday is huge, and nobody is more guilty of that than me. But that should be our choice - what is this, we are guilty of attracting the burglars now - it's not their fault?!
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Technology is a way of life now, Turkish people use it too, not just holiday makers. I take my iPad to keep in touch with family and a whole load of things, my hubby uses his laptop a lot, we are usually there for 6 weeks at a time and he works a few hours a day on it. I have a kindle basic because it is light to hold (I have problems with my hands). If we didn't take them away, we could equally be burgled at home. For security sake, iPads and kindles are easy enough to take out with us.
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I understand what you re sayıng Lotty ,you are here for 6 weeks. I also understand what you are sayıng Keith but ıt still seems like a lot of technology to take on a holiday. Its the ones that are here for 7days 10 days 14 days ect that amaze me. You can go to most bars and use theır computers to keep ın touch at home. We used to leave our computers phones ect wıth relatıves or neıghbours whıle we were away on holıday. A holiday to us was just that. I must be gettıng old
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Not sure about 7 or 14 days - it would be impossible for me to have two days without checking emails etc. We noticed it more on holiday this year - at breakfast nearly everyone was on an ipad, smartphone or similar. But that was also because it was a huge complex and wifi was supplied in the main building - where the restaurant is.
I agree with you (quackers) to a degree though. I would love a week with no internet but that is not going to happen anytime soon. Why others who don't work for themselves feel the need to be online every ten minutes when on holiday is a little puzzling. Kids today (mine included) seem to want to share their every move with their friends. I don't see that as a bad thing, just a new thing.
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If people are sharing their every move it is possible for those with evil intent to determine when they are well away from the property and he coast is clear. However, I do think that is a little more sophisticated than the opportunist burglars.
We have a place surrounded by Turkish people rather than ex-pats and holiday makers. I do feel this gives us some measure of additional security, and this was demonstrated to us last time we were thee and I dropped my keys outside. I found them later that day pinned to the notice board downstairs....and no evidence of anyone having tried to get in.
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Was looking forward to my 82nd birthday. got up and found we had been burgled. No idea how they got in as-we had locked up. They were fussy. They took money,camera and all my notes from Turkish lessons !
Still like it here.
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Oh no! thats awful! how did they get in? Its a horrible feeling knowing they've been rutting around your stuff as you slept. >:( Where exactly is that? BTW hope you still have a happy birthday. Don't let the scumbags spoil it for you. :)
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Echoing Lotty's message. Try and have a lovely birthday.
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Hope you had a good birthday despite the breakin. What area of Koca Calis do you live in ?
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Im out in my villa at present and yes theres been many burglaries around in the last week or so,but the most disturbing one that my friend told me about was a young child on holiday woke up in the morning and asked her mother who was that man in my room last night they had been burgled terrible,i guess she was woke up by the thief but did not realise that it was a bugler in there villa near cicek.A large white ford pick up truck has been seen around and is under suspicion.
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I think quite a lot of tourists who are on holiday and renting villas may forget their security. My neighbour in Calis saw a handbag by the bins. Had someones belongings in (no money though) and an address in Calis. The neighbour took it over to the address, there where English people there and they had arrived the day before, gone to bed and not locked the door, they had been robbed and this handbag was part of the items taken. They said they did not bother to lock the door as they just arrived and where "tired".
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Thanks for your good wishes. We live up near the canal in Ciftlik.
Had a great birthday
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Im out in my villa at present and yes theres been many burglaries around in the last week or so,but the most disturbing one that my friend told me about was a young child on holiday woke up in the morning and asked her mother who was that man in my room last night they had been burgled terrible,i guess she was woke up by the thief but did not realise that it was a bugler in there villa near cicek.A large white ford pick up truck has been seen around and is under suspicion.
I think this incident is referring to my experience. On the last morning of our stay near Mavi Kent. My 5yr old daughter woke to see a burglar entering and leaving my bedroom in which i was asleep. She woke her sister in the next bed and their chattering woke me up. We presume this disturbed the burglar and lucky for him he made a sharp exit. All our valuables were well hidden and locked away and he/they got away with some costume jewellery and around 300TL.. My daughter gave a very good description of the msn to the Garda and seems quite unaffected by the experience thank God. They had got in by climbing an outbuilding behind the villa and forcing open the tiny toilet window.. They are obviously quite brazen to commit this at 6am when its so obvious that we were all in at the time.
This in no way has put us off returning to the area. People just need to be sensible and aware.. As in anywhere across the world.
Regards Paul
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