All CBF readers please note .
We were broken into last week during the night while we were sitting at the back of the house .We had visitors and we had been out for the evening. On our return we 3 ladies took our handbags upstairs to our rooms and returned outside.We cannot understand how the thief / thieves entered the property as we closed and locked the front of the house on arrival. Only money was taken , (typically we had just been to a cashpoint in the evening in Fethiye !) All credit cards and passports were left intact. The handbags were carefully closed so we didnt notice the money had gone until the morning. Our burglar alarm had gone off out of the blue in the middle of the afternoon a few days prior to this , while we were out, which might have been someone making a rekky .Our neighbours were at home and came to check and the security company called the police who could find nothing out of the ordinary .
The following day our neigbours noticed a dark coloured car cruising up and down our road giving every property a good look over, and once he stood up and stared at them , and they saw him on his balcony they moved on.
We have also had 2 men posing as a charity registered with the Jandarma , collecting money for Turkish soldiers killed in action , at our front door ( other friends and neighbours I mentioned this to also had the same experience. ) . Their ID looked very faded and they were not in uniform.Once I said we would be happy to make a donation when we were next near to the police station , as we had no money in the house they left. Apart from trying to extract money we suspect that they were also 'casing' the houses , in order to follow up later. All these incidents have been reported to the local police , in the hope that they may be able to establish a pattern but they are inundated with robberies from tourists and residents, and, in our case there was nothing disturbed nor evidence of a forced entry.
I say this in good faith to warn you all , not to receive a tirade of criticism regarding what we should have done . Lesson learned . Thank you
