It’s time to buy property in Turkey. Why? It’s very easy, because:
      It has fantastic climate, charming towns and villages, golden beaches, a stunning mountain backdrop, wealth of history and friendly, hospitable people, over 300 days of sunshine each year, and all this just a couple of hours flight from European countries. Turkey is becoming more and more popular for European people buying homes in the Mediterranean.
        
      In 2003 Turkey has liberalized it's real estate market for foreign buyers.
      Now more than 40,000 estates in 70 Turkish cities are owned by foreigners from
      64 countries. Almost 5,000 foreign investors are new to the market. Citizens from 87 countries qualify to buy without approval by the local authorities.
      Citizens from 24 other countries can purchase only buildings but not land.
      Germans,British as well as Dutch, French and American citizens are also at the top of the list of nations interested to buy in Turkey.
        
      The main explanation for the opening of the Turkish real estate market is the country's bid to become European Union member in the years to come. One of the reasons why foreign investors should consider Turkey as an option, according to most local agents, is that prices in the country are much lower than in EU in average. Depending on the area prices as low as 25,000 for an apartment and 50,000 for a house aren't impossible to find. When Turkey becomes EU member prices of Real Estate will most likely rise to a near European level. The potential for returns on investment in this area are enormous.
        
      The low cost of living, which is much lower than most other European Countries and the low crime rate.

        
      As a European you can purchase with complete safety, as the conveyance is easy and uncomplicated.   
        
         
      TURKEY BRIEF HISTORY:
          
      7500BC First Stone Age settlements at Çatalhüyük.
      1900-1300BC Hittite Empire, contemporary with ancient Egypt and Babylon.
      1250BC The Trojan War. Fall of Troy (Truva).
      1200-700BC Migration of Greeks to Aegean coastal regions. Kingdoms of Phrygia, Ionia, Lycia, Lydia, Caria and Pamphylia. Urartian civilisation in eastern Anatolia.
      700BC Birth of Homer in Smyrna ( Izmir). Beginnings of Hellenistic culture in Aegean Turkey.
      546BC Cyrus the Great of Persia invades. Anatolia under Persian rule.
      334BC Alexander the Great conquers Anatolia, freeing it from the Persians.
      130BC Anatolia becomes the Roman province of Asia with Ephesus (Efes) as capital...
      40BC Antony and Cleopatra marry at Antioch, (in Syria until AD1939).
      AD47-57 St Paul ’s missionary journeys. First Christian community at Antioch.
      AD313 Christianity accepted as the official religion of the Roman Empire.
      AD330 Byzantium ( Istanbul) renamed Constantinople by Emperor Constantine as new capital of the Byzantine Empire.
      527-565 Reign of Justinian and the height of Byzantine power.

      636-713 Muslim Arabs defeat Byzantines and besiege Constantinople.
      1054 Schism between Greek and Roman churches.
      1071-1243 Seljuk Turks conquer Anatolia with Konya (ancient Iconium) as their capital.
      1096-1204 The Crusades, with Latin armies entering Anatolia for the first time. Byzantine Empire dismembered.
      1288 Birth of the Ottoman Empire with capital at Bursa.
      1453 Mehmet II conquers Constantinople and renames it Istanbul as the  capital of the Ottoman Empire.
      1520-1566 Reign of Süleyman the Magnificent and the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire, which extended from the Danube to Aden and Eritrea, and from the Euphrates and the Crimea to Algiers.
      1682-1725 Reign of Peter the Great in Russia begins new era of
      Russo-Turkish rivalry.
      1854 Crimean War. Ottomans are supported by the British and French against Russia.
      1909 Abdul Hamid, last Ottoman sultan, deposed by Young Turks.
      1914 Turkey enters World War I as an ally of Germany. On defeat, the Allies propose carve up of Ottoman Empire.
      1915 Gallipoli Campaign. Allied landings on Turkish soil are repulsed.
      1919 Atatürk leads Turkish resistance in fight for national sovereignty.
      1923 Turkish state proclaimed with Atatürk as President. Exchange of minority population between Greece and Turkey. Reforms to modernise and secularise the state. Islam disestablished, Arabic script replaced by Latin alphabet, Turkish language revived. Women’s veils and the fez banned.
      1938 Atatürk dies.
      1945 Turkey remains neutral in World War II.
      1946 Turkey becomes charter member of the United Nations.
      1952 Turkey joins NATO.
      1960 Almost bloodless military coup followed by successive inefficient governments.
      1964 Turkey becomes associate member of the EEC.
      1974 Turkey intervenes in Cyprus to protect the Turkish Cypriot community, seizing the northern third of the island.
      1980 Bloodless military coup under General Kenan Evren, three years of military rule.
      1983 Return to civilian rule with Turgut Özal elected Prime Minister, moving to the Presidency in 1989.
      1985-1990 Disputes with Greece over Cyprus and Aegean territorial waters damage Turkey’s attempts to join the EEC, as does its human rights record in handling Kurdish insurrection in the southeast.
      1991-1993 Süleyman Demirel elected Prime Minister forming a coalition government. Forms post of Minister for Human Rights and promises rule of Kurdish policy. Economic reforms introduced to combat 70 inflation.
      1993 President Turgut Özal dies. Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel becomes his successor and Tansu Çiller becomes in turn, the first woman Prime Minister.