It was found out that real estate ownership of Qataris were not limited to Qatari Emirate’s mother Şeyha Moza’s land property routed at Canal Istanbul. Qataris bought 795.000 square meter of real property during AKP administration.
MOSTLY ISTANBUL
Minister Kurum, clarified that in Turkey individuals with Arab background bought mostly real estates in Istanbul. According to the information given by Kurum, Arabs owned real estates in 59 provinces. While the lands they owned reached 2 million 504 square meters in Istanbul;
In Ankara 393.000 square meters,
In Izmir 32.000 square meters,
In Eskişehir 423.000 square meters of land were bought.
While the ownerships of lands,
In Bursa amounting to 1 million and 174.000 square meters,
In Sakarya amounting to 1 million and 93.000 square meters,
In Kocaeli amounting to 940.000 meters,
In Manisa amounting to 607.000 square meters changed.
SAUDIS ARE IN THE FIRST PLACE
According to the data of Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning, the majority of 3.336 pieces of real property that Turkey sold to foreigners went to Iraqis. 19.256 Iraqi citizens in total, bought 1 million 503.272 square meters of estate from Turkey. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia shone out in terms of the sizes of the estates. The square measure of the estates sold to the 8.250 individuals of Saudi Arabia origin became 3 million 408.555 square meters. While, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq became the top three countries of estate ownership, Qatar became the fourth and United Arab Emirates became the fifth country with 649.890 square meters of estate.
Translated by
Nevzat Ahrar
