It's been some considerable time since the relocating of the Karagözler boatyard appeared in the news, but this week it turned up again.
For new readers, here's the back story. For years efforts have been underway to try to move the boatyard away from its current location.
The land it currently occupies in Karagözler on the edge of the bay could be extremely valuable for hotel/residential development, but that is never stated.
Instead the lack of space and facilities in the boatyard, particularly space for storing boats on land in the winter, are given as the prime reasons for the move.
The first choice for the move was Karaot beach in Yanıklar, but the villagers of Yanıklar are anti the development and protested vigorously against the proposal and won.
A couple of years ago Çiftlik council offered 150,000 sq.m. of land for the new boat facility.
The plot is 400m from the sea but they would build a wide deep canal and everyone seemed happy.
However, no tender for building has yet been issued, and this week the boat builders told press we want to go to Karaot not Çiftlik.
