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I purchased in Turkey through MRI back in 2006. I am now in need of legal advice regarding how best to proceed to recoup my money.

Anyone know any good sources for Turkish law?

Marc,

It might help if you put the facts behind your purchase in Turkey online then members will be able to help you more.

I dont see why details are required since I am only asking for references for Turkish property law i.e. urls or companies.

However, I dont see that adding details will cause any harm.

Usual nightmare story. 

Sold an overpriced property. Construction was behind schedule. Once completed took 6 months to sort out the mortgage due to changes in Turk law and the terrible Capital Financial Partners system.

Railroaded into purchasing an extortionate furniture package in order to comply with MRI rental department. MRI rental department is now closed so no need for the ridiculous furniture pack. I am trying to get a refund for this. I know exchange rates have changed a lot but at todays rate we paid £15k sterling to furnish a 2 bed apartment. I have an aunt who has just furnished a 2 bed in Turkey for £5k. Were sold the furniture package 18 months ago on the surmise that if we didn't do it there and then we would slip down the list for rentals even though 18 months on we have not completed yet.

Mortgage was exchange in December when POA was sent over. For some reason exchange of deeds was not attempted until the beginning of this month when it was found that our POA had been stolen from the deeds office. So basically mortgage was finalised and sent in December.

2 months down the line we dont officially own the property. Snagging has not been completed and if I don't get the POA done within a month the deed process is cancelled. Add to this the fact I am out of the country until next month anyhow and I now posess a different passport to the one used in the original POA and you get an idea of some of the issues.

Had another scan through the contract and although I am not trained to read into things certain points make it clear why the developer is willing to pay the costs to get the POA done again quickly even though its not technically their fault it was stolen. Contract mentions exchange of deeds is required within a set time frame upon completion which has not been met. Hence the reason why I want to get professional legal advice on our contract.

If anyone can recommend any Turkish property law firms please let me know.

Hi Mdady

I sent you a private reply with details of a Turkish Lawyer that I use he is very good and also came recommended to me have you received them as I had replied to you yesterday morning, just asking as you are still asking.  If you have not got them let me know and I will resend them.

Regards Anne

Hi Marc,

Have a look at http://www.turkisheconomy.org.uk/ under Buying Property section it gives some help on contacts for solicitors etc.

Thanks for the update.

They are now refusing to refund the furniture pack despite the fact that the rental department for which it was purchased has since been shut down.

Do not use them, they have tried to con me out of £1000.  I signed up to an inspection trip to Cyprus with my wife as we want to buy an apartment, so we gave our credit card details after they guarenteed in writing that we would pay on £49 each to have a look at property with absolutely no strings attached.  When are credit card statement came through before the trip we saw that they had charged just under £800.  So I emailed them and said that they had made a mistake, also informing the credit card company.  They said that they would refund after our trip also in writing the difference, again with no strings attached.  So after we had done the 4 day trip and hadnt found anything that matched our wish list.  There office in Cyprus said that they would refund the difference and to top it all they even made us pay for the hotel and transport back to the airport, which cost us an additional £200 - hence £1000.

Never ever use these people, fortunately the credit card company is investigating and hopefully they will take action.  But if anyone from MRI is reading this then you should be ashamed of your business practice!  My advice is to find an independant local agent as they need your business - and organisations like MRI just dont care, your just a number to them.