Jill,
Sorry to read you bad experience. I have to tell you my experience, our friends from UK (Crawley)liked very much incirkoy (near Uzumlu)and wanted buy a large sum of land. He is a young fireman and his wife is a nurse. I indroduce them to local (Turkish)estate agent who doesn't work with foreign customers. We asked him his opinion. His clear feedback was, theye were about to pay 4 ( FOUR!!!) times more then the market price. Unfortunately they still went ahaed with this project. Their investment was 45K.... now they realized that they paid too much had only 5% building permission...
After reading your story and having my friends experience my conlusion is: I think people are becoming too blinde when they buy ( what ever you like to call, dream home, being too gready, etc etc ) propety.... they her waht they like to hear, they see what they like to see. I think sale man will allways smile.. if you don't ask the correct question.