Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Expat & Property Owners Q and A Forum => Topic started by: chris35 on June 12, 2013, 11:59:42 AM
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Hi all.
Came over in May before the troubles started with the intention to buy an apartment. We found our place and started the buying process.We have paid our deposit and hope to complete in approx 4 weeks from now.Obviously with the recent events We are a little worried that we have bought at the wrong time.
My feelings are that
1 Calis is a long way from the troubles and I can't foresee water cannon and tear gas being used on the residents here.
2 There are already a massive amount of ex-pats living over here already and it really doesn't have any bearing of how we will be treated,apart from not being able to buy a beer from the supermarket after 10pm.
What are the feelings of members who have bought properties here already?
Over to you..
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Love ıt Love ıt Love ıt. Very Happy lıvıng here . No problems ın thıs area.
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I am not particularly worried about it.
I am more concerned about the lack of reasonable flight prices and the increases in costs as they will continue where as the trouble going on at the moment will be history soon.
Each year there is something to blame decline of tourism on, Bird Flu, earthquake etc but the decline in my opinion starts at the point people look for a holiday and they look for value for money. This can now be found in places that were too expensive in Euope like Portugal, spain etc.
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Here now and loving it. Had our villa for 9 years. It is such a beautiful place. Can't beat a beer while watching the Calis sunset. And so much to explore in the surrounding areas. :)
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we went into Fethiye sunday evening and there was 2 demos underway. One behind the culture centre and the other at the monument/obelisk, both very peaceful with singing and dancing. When the demos broke up the demonstrators stood for the Turkish national anthem and were joined by expats and tourists. The demonstrators were then applauded by the bystanders and restaurant customers as they made their way home.
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We have had a place for 7 years and are going across soon, not bothered one bit about what is going on, Turkish politics can be a bit skittitsh at the best of times, it has come to a head and hopefully can be resolved soon.
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Thanks so far for your comments.
Have to agree with everthing that has been said.Hopefully the trouble will blow over and some other countries troubles will be making the headlines soon.
Had to laugh at yesterdays BBC news, a report on the Istanbul riots was followed immediately by rioting in London by some "Anti-capitalist brigade". I have to say the London rioting looked a lot more violent.
Can't wait to come over in September and spend our first holiday in our new home. Calis is such a lovely place that nothing else really matters does it.(Apart from the price of Efes of course) :D :D
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Had to laugh at yesterdays BBC news, a report on the Istanbul riots was followed immediately by rioting in London by some "Anti-capitalist brigade". I have to say the London rioting looked a lot more violent.
Are you serious Chris ,take your head out of the sand ,people have died in Turkey ,police are using water cannons ,cs gas and stun grenades.
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And people in here who totally cock up "reply with quote"!!!
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Normal for me. :'(
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I'll forgive you as you are a newbie, you've only been on here 9 years ;)
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Had to laugh at yesterdays BBC news, a report on the Istanbul riots was followed immediately by rioting in London by some "Anti-capitalist brigade". I have to say the London rioting looked a lot more violent.
Are you serious Chris ,take your head out of the sand ,people have died in Turkey ,police are using water cannons ,cs gas and stun grenades.
You've obviously taken my quote out of context. I was making the point that riots where also going on in my own country as well as Turkey.Just making the point that riots no matter how bad can happen anywhere in the world.In the reports that I saw,the violence was worse in London riots than that particular clip of the Turkish riots.Thats all.
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You're all at tonight
Believe it or not, when replying to someone else's quote, you reply AFTER the quote, not IN it!!!
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Had to laugh at yesterdays BBC news, a report on the Istanbul riots was followed immediately by rioting in London by some "Anti-capitalist brigade". I have to say the London rioting looked a lot more violent.
Are you serious Chris ,take your head out of the sand ,people have died in Turkey ,police are using water cannons ,cs gas and stun grenades.
You've obviously taken my quote out of context. I was making the point that riots where also going on in my own country as well as Turkey.Just making the point that riots no matter how bad can happen anywhere in the world.In the reports that I saw,the violence was worse in London riots than that particular clip of the Turkish riots.Thats all.
I believe that the difference between the riots in Istanbul and those in London, and possibly what prompted your response is that the rioters in London appear to include a sizeable portion of "rentamob" whereas those in Turkey appear to be putting their feelings across rather than trying to cause violence.
We returned last night after 4 blissful weeks in Calis and have to say that we have heard more about the "problems" in Turkey since we returned than we ever heard there. Perhaps it is our press being its usual over the top self, or a black out of the press releases in Turkey but from personal experience, we never for one minute felt that we were in any danger at all whilst there.
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Scunner, did I do good with the Quotes? :-\
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Nobody knows how this will pan out - RT is clearly no fool and unrest and subsequent drops in the stock exchange values do not help anyone.
For a man who has navigated his way around so many obstacles that many thought would bring him down - I would hope he can negotiate the right course now.
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Scunner, did I do good with the Quotes? :-\
No - start writing after the last [/quote]
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Scunner, did I do good with the Quotes? :-\
You did it like this ;)
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And there was I thinking that I had cracked it!!!!!
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And there was I thinking that I had cracked it!!!!!
You have matey!!
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To answer the question asked initially
If I was looking to buy, it wouldn't put me off. The likely outcomes are either a general election or a realisation that Sultan Recep can't do what he wants when he wants. Both good things generally. An Islamic state is pretty unlikely and recent events have proved that the Turkish people will resist that vigorously.
Locally as people have said, pretty much business as usual. Tough times in many countries - and maybe I'd rather have a property in Turkey than one in Spain, especially if I wanted to sell it in the medium term.
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To answer the question asked initially
If I was looking to buy, it wouldn't put me off. The likely outcomes are either a general election or a realisation that Sultan Recep can't do what he wants when he wants. Both good things generally. An Islamic state is pretty unlikely and recent events have proved that the Turkish people will resist that vigorously.
Locally as people have said, pretty much business as usual. Tough times in many countries - and maybe I'd rather have a property in Turkey than one in Spain, especially if I wanted to sell it in the medium term.
My thoughts exactly. I certainly wont be pulling out of the buying process,and look forward to many years of good times in Calis. ;D ;D ;D
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London riots, warrington bomb, July 07 bomb, manchester arndale bomb, I would not worry about buying in Calis
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likewise. Where in the world hasn't got it's issues!
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Romford ?