No less than 11 ruling New Democracy (ND) deputies on Thursday tabled a question in Parliament towards seven ministers – of a ND government – over what they called “aggressive” purchases of real estate and businesses by Turkish buyers in border areas.
The table question refers to “Turkish capital” cloaked behind companies shown as being based in Greece or other European countries.
The deputies, in particular, pointed to such purchases in the Evros prefecture, which borders with European Turkey in the Thrace province, in northeast Greece.
The tabled question demands a response over “what measures the government intends to take to address the possibility of aggressive and directed purchases of real estate or businesses by foreign funds in sensitive national regions, such as Thrace and the (Aegean) islands, as well as who and how controls bad loan funds, usually based abroad, and to whom do (the latter) sell auctioned properties of the border regions.”
