ABANDONED VILLAGE
OF
MODERN CASTLES IN TURKEY
Hundreds of Disney-like castles being built for wealthy
Gulf investors have just got their new residents. Ghosts. The Burj Al Babas
residential area project in Turkey’s northern Bolu province began in 2014, but
its developer, the Sarot Group, has failed to come up with the required amount
of money for finishing the medieval castles.
The Sarot Group was recently slapped with a court-ordered
bankruptcy ruling over the Burj Al Babas’ $27 million debt. The suburb project
was designed to include 732 chateau-style villas, swimming pools, Turkish
baths, health and beauty centers, a shopping center and a mosque, according to
its website. And even though customers from Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab
Emirates, and Saudi Arabia have bought around 350 of the 587 kitsch villas
built, it’s not enough.
“We couldn’t get about 7.5 million dollars receivables for
the villas we have sold to Gulf countries,” Hurriyet newspaper quoted Sarot Group Chairman Mehmet Emin Yerdelen. “We
applied for bankruptcy protection but the court ruled for bankruptcy. We will
appeal the ruling.”
The court also ordered the group to stop all construction
immediately leaving a site full of abandoned houses, but Yerdelen remains
hopeful. “The project is valued at $200 million,” he said. “We only need to
sell 100 villas to pay off our debt. I believe we can get over this crisis in
four to five months and partially inaugurate the project in 2019.”
Now, check out these castles ...
Clancy's comment: Wow. Extraordinary-looking suburb, and none of them have a moat.
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