Local court dismisses lawsuit on presidential palace
Date
10/20/2015 8:50:46 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) AnAnkaracourt dismissed a lawsuit by trade associations led by the Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects’ Chambers (TMMOB) over the construction of the presidential palace in Betepe on the grounds that the palace’s construction on the land of theAtatürkForestry Farm (AOÇ) violates founder and first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s will and conditional donation of the land to the state.
Complainant TMMOBAnkarabranch chair Tezcan Karaku Candan said it is unnecessary to be Atatürk’s relative in order to be a party in the legal proceeding.
But theAnkara26th Court of First Instance Judge Asuman Ada ahin citing a precedent by the Constitutional Court threw out the case because of the party’s “person disqualification.”
The TMMOB has pursued 55 separate lawsuits regarding the presidential palace.
The new palace was built by order of PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoanin 2014 on a part of the AOÇ in the Betepe neighborhood of Ankara.
The first president of Turkey had donated his expansive recreational farming area to the state in 1937 12 years after he founded it as a green oasis on previously barren land.
The complex lies on a 15-hectare area inside the historic farm one of the most well-preserved green spaces in Ankara and hundreds of trees were felled for its construction. The administration kept up with the construction despite a preventive court order as well as an expert view that stipulates the area’s protection citing a violation of the principles of urban planning ecology and science.
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