Yikes, sorry its been a while, got a lot to catch up on, as promised here's a bit of info on how we got to this stage.
Before we could start our restoration project in Turkey, we had to buy the land, as Turkey is not in the EU (yet!) there are restirctions on where foreign investors can buy land and or property. There's more info here on Buying in Turkey here and also on the Channel 4 site.
It turned out that we had choosen to buy a property owned jointly by four people, (children of the previous occupants), who had all moved away to other areas, so in order to buy the land we had to get in touch with each of them to agree a price. Our turkish friend acted on our behalf throughout this process, (we gave him power of attorney), this involved seeing a turkish solicitor and drawing up the papers and registering with the local notary office. Eventually a meeting was arranged, with the current owners and after a lot of negotiation, the land was finally ours. When you buy a house/land in Turkey you should expect to recieve an official document called a Tapu these are your title deeds.
You do need to be aware that there is a lot of administration, time and costs involved in the process, and you really do need to have good solicitors, agents and translators that you trust to guide you through and explain everything, as its all very different to buying in the UK.
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