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Ideas and principles can become ingrained, or deeply rooted, into the natural fiber of a person or culture. When something is ingrained it is deep-seated and nearly impossible to change or remove.
* The harsh memories became ingrained within her, causing her to have nightmares and irrational fears.
* Our holiday traditions are ingrained within our family, and we would never think of changing them.

Bring a goat, get a sheep

Goats are known to damage newly planted trees and a new project launched by the Bozburun Municipality in Marmaris, Mu?la, aims to replace goats with sheep.
“We were asked to reforest the area and protect the trees,” Bozburun Mayor Salih Ta?k?n said. “Goats are a big threat for newly planted tress, so we will give a sheep for every goat the residents bring us.” In the first stage of the project, 1,000 goats will be exchanged for

Tourism investors support sales to foreigners

It is estimated that foreigners own 20,000 lots of property in Bodrum and approximately 4,000 in Marmaris. Tourism investors in Mu?la, which ranks second among cities with foreign property buyers, are aiming to sell property to foreigners.

The Turkish Association of Travel Agents (TÜRSAB) Bodrum Administrative Board Chief Nasih Demir said the association was not against the sales, the Anatolia news agency said. “However we think that this issue is abused, especially in Bodrum,” he said, adding, “we oppose the sale of tourist areas to foreigners as residential areas.”

Demir said the municipalities eased these kinds of sales. “For example, a 20,000-square meter area is allocated for tourism, where you can build a 300-room facility. But necessary permits are required for a 150-house apartment hotel, which is registered as a pension and then changed to a residential building,” he said. Demir said property sales to foreigners in Bodrum have come to a halt recently. “The situation in Antalya is totally different. Kazakh and Russian businessmen buy property there and the sales are usually tourism investments,” he said, adding that most of the sales in the Aegean region were residential.

“The British and Irish who buy houses in the region use them like hotels for their visitors. It means that we have lots of unregistered tourism facilities,” he said.

Demir said the listed number of houses sold to foreigners in Bodrum at 20,000 is an estimate. “In some areas where foreigners are not allowed to buy property, the properties are registered under Turkish citizens, but the real owner is in fact a foreigner. It is too difficult to know how many of these we have, so no one can give a solid number,” he said.

The South Aegean Hotels Association (GETOP) President ?lhan Aç?kgöz said his association was not against the sale of property to foreigners. “The foreigners who buy houses in Marmaris promote Turkey in their own countries. As far as I know, the number of foreign house owners in Marmaris is around 3,000-4,000, most of whom are British. We are for the sale of property to foreigners, as long as the properties are not located in strategic areas,” he said. For example, he said he will oppose foreigners buying agricultural lands in the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) zone but there should be no limits for buying residences.

Around 68,419 foreigners own a total of 36,015,446 square meters of property in Turkey, according to statistics of the General Directorate of Land as of Nov. 12, 2007. German citizens top the list of foreign landowners, owning a total of 15,290 properties, followed by British with 12,948 and Greeks with 10,094 (8,471 are owned by Greeks of Turkish origins). One citizen each from the Czech Republic, China, the Philippines, Libya, Liechtenstein, Niger, Peru, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan and Venezuela own a property in Turkey.