#ABANDONED CASTLE NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIE#

The collapsing construction bubble has resulted in half-finished high-rises and ghost towns all over the country. The haunting images are making the rounds online as developers struggle to revive the decrepit neighborhood now the stuff of nightmares. However, the weakening Turkish lira has left many companies struggling to pay off the foreign currency debt borrowed to finance projects, stalling work and bankrupting companies. Drone footage of an eerie abandoned urban development of mini castles in Turkey has shone a light on the troubles facing the country's economy.

#ABANDONED CASTLE NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIE#

Burj Al Babas was also set to receive a shopping center, a movie theater, Turkish bath, and other amenities which have now been put on hold as of 2018 in view of the lack of residents.

It is a residential neighborhood, baptized as burj al babas, on the outskirts of the Turkish town of Mudurnu.But to make the matter more disturbing, one more fact must be added, and that is that the housing complex is totally abandoned. Rows and rows of luxury homes sit unattended, many of which were never actually completed. A total of 587 castles, all the same, side by side for miles.It sounds like a movie set, but this scene is as real as life itself. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has encouraged a construction boom during his time in office, hailing large, job-heavy infrastructure projects as the engine of the Turkish economy. The unfortunate turn of events has left the castle houses of Burj Al Babas empty. SEPH LAWLESS This Alberta neighborhood, known as Beachwood Estates. “Developments without proper planning that do not contextualise the geography and history of their surroundings have exploded in Turkey since.” Weakening lira Sometimes, an abandoned mansion is nothing more than a result of tragic fate. “I worry that projects like Burj al Babas opened Pandora’s box, in some respects,” he said. Since Burj al Babas got the go-ahead, the Turkish government has introduced new building regulations designed to preserve local character and heritage: in several places, housing developments must now be low-rise and fit in with existing neighbourhoods.īut it may be too late to undo some of the damage, said Yasar Adnan Adanali, an Istanbul-based urban development researcher.Ī row of houses at Burj al Babas: the properties were retailing for about €436,000. The construction project has long been hated by Mudurnu locals, who say it is not in keeping with the area’s traditional architecture, characterised by Byzantine buildings, traditional Ottoman wooden houses and a 600-year-old mosque.

Abandoned castle neighborhood