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British Invasion in Turkey
While the Turks do not see this as a problem today, maybe they should start questioning how much of their land they want to sell off for a little bit. What has this type of foreign investment done to the economy? Many Turks can no longer afford to buy a house, summer house (yazlik) or a car because so many foreigners buy up the land and homes increasing the prices for real estate to an all time high. Now, if the average Turk wants a piece of what was always considered the Turkish way of life, they will be hard-pressed to get it. Why? The Turkish economy grows each year and development increases; with this investment, more British and German foreigners arrive to take their place on the sunny beaches of Bodrum, Antalya, Alanya, Kalkan, Marmaris, Didim, and Kas, not to mention places of historic proportions such as Cappadocia or Goreme and Kayseri. I speak not of tourists who come and go, but foreign home buyers who then rent their places part of the year to other nationals from their home country.
 Just ask any of the locals how they feel about the foreign invasion and the words won't be of the flag-waving sort. People let go of their family homes because they were forced out by the changes in their way of life. Can they afford to live because of the influx of foreign money? No, because the foreigners cook at home, walk more than take taxis, don't hire cleaners and don't want to pay the going rate for these services anyway in addition to paying few or little taxes.
Additionally, we can see where some areas in Turkey, not only force out the natives, but then petition to get a foreign mayor to represent them and let the locals know they are not welcome in their establishments. Can this be the way of globalization and will Turkey be Turkey ten years from now. .150x100.jpg) Hasan Kanbolat echoes this sentiment in the Today's Zaman that Turks are turning against more globalization because they want to preserve their historical heritage. Turkey shares many historical, linguistic, religious, cultural and ethnic ties with the people in the surrounding countries. Not only that, but the Turks are well familiar with forced migration, not wanting it to happen again.
As a foreigner, I see another type of forced migration happening which is the selling off of the best land in the country to foreigners. Selling to the highest bidder may eventually leave a Turk wondering which country they live in. To add insult to injury to the local natives, where one never saw nude sunbathers before, now we can count them in public places even offending this writer's eyes. Further, as Muslims, they do not eat pork, but now the local restaurants serve pork leaving a Muslim patron wondering if they can trust the preparation of their food.
Lale Sariibrahimoglu sees the litmus test a little different when she asks "who will protect the Turks from their protectors?" While she did not ask this question about auctioning off the land, it is a well-posed question for many unwelcomed changes occurring in the country.Right now, unemployment has decreased to 11 percent in the urban areas and 5.5 percent in the rural areas with a total labor force of only 49.3 percent of all Turks. With almost 2.5 million unemployed people never having lived in the lap of luxury and many unemployed for over a year, how does foreign home buyers help this situation.The wages are still quite low here in Turkey, especially when you compare the worker salaries with those of the West. Another 48 percent of all employment in Turkey is unregistered, yet when an entire town is taken over by foreigners, in this instance, Kalkan, the salaries do not increase nor does employment; in fact, sometimes both decrease. Can this be good for the long-term economic health of Turkey and their native citizens?
Another factor which we cannot fail to recognize is how the under-education of the Turkish society as a whole  plays into the selling off of land which is valuable. The World Bank believes that only 27 percent of Turkish adults completed high school; of that, only a very small percentage ever make it to the university. All the rest have only a fifth or eighth grade education.With the strongest economy and military force in the entire region, how is it that Turkey, on one hand, has some of most historical and environmentally beautiful places on earth, yet on the other hand, allows it to be sold to the highest bidder? Maybe some of the answers can be found in low education levels combined with high unemployment which equals people desperate for money to just subsist.
The question remains: Where are the defenders of the Turkish Republic and its way of life and who will protect those who are banished from their homes leaving entire villages or small towns without a Turk to represent their homeland?
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