6 Ocak 2026 Salı

"Inherit & Release": Endless Lawsuit Over Priceless Properties Dogged by Wanna-be Heirs, in Antalya

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 6 January 2026)















     Lawyer Yılmaz wishing he'd become a truck driver.

The fake heirs of Arap Süleyman and Hacı Bekirzade Mehmet Ağa, 
two main heirs of billions of dollars of land in Antalya, are affecting 
the case that has been going on for about 70 years. Necati Yılmaz, 
one of the lawyers of the case, said, "Anyone who finds the name 
'Süleyman' in his family comes to this file." (!)

In the 67-year-old case regarding lands worth billions of dollars in 
the city, registered in the name of Arap Süleyman, Hacı Bekirzade 
Mehmet Ağa and the Treasury, there is a problem of fake heirs and 
their involvement in the cases. In this area of ​​2 million 400 thousand 
square meters; Tourism Practice Hotel, Antalya Training and Research 
Hospital, Falez and Rixos hotels, Glass Pyramid Park, AKM, Atatürk 
Culture Park, Glass Pyramid Fair and Congress Center, Antalya 
Tennis Specialization Club, fuel station, Antalyaspor Facilities, 
Corendon Stadium, Antalya Courthouse, Antalya Sports Hall, 
around 10 thousand residences in numerous sites, Meltem Market 
Place, facilities, schools, parks, the Regional Land Registry 
Directorate, mosques, parking lots, cooperatives and many other 
structures.

Lawyer Necati Yılmaz, who has been following the case for more 
than 20 years on behalf of Hacı Bekirzade Mehmet Ağa and some 
of the heirs of Arap Süleyman, pointed out that there are hundreds 
of people who appear to be parties in this file. Yılmaz said, "They say, 
'We are the heirs of Arab Süleyman', but they have no idea how 
they became heirs. Anyone who finds the name 'Süleyman' in their 
family comes to this file. The courts are also at fault. They decided 
to accept the primary intervention requests regarding these requests, 
without examining them or fulfilling the relevant procedural 
measures. A lot of people seem to be actually involved in the file, 
but they do not even know how they actually became heirs."

"It's mine!"...




















Stating that it was decided to reject the request of the person who 
claimed to be the heir of Hacı Bekirzade Mehmet Ağa in the case, 
Necati Yılmaz said, "Actually, he is not yet a party in the case. 
In other words, it is not possible for him to make a request before 
a decision is made regarding his request for intervention, that is, 
without gaining the title of 'party'. The court made such a decision 
by mistake." 

"In other words, although there was no need to make 
a decision and there was no need to make any decision, it decided 
to reject it. They also used this and the file is again in the 
Regional Court of Justice. However, "The Regional Court of 
Justice has already made a decision 3 months ago. What is the 
point of sending the same decision there again? The purpose here 
is to drag the file out somehow. Various people are trying to take 
advantage of this," he said.

Giving the example of H.Y., who intervened in the case with 
assertions that he was the heir of Arap Süleyman's daughter 
Hava and was tried for the crime of forgery of documents, Yılmaz 
said, "The person called H.Y. came and made demands 
in exchange for withdrawing these cases. But of course, it is not 
just about H.Y. withdrawing his demand. There are hundreds of 
people. There is a group of people. For example, they claim that 
they are the heirs of Süleyman Ağa's granddaughter Zeynep." 
























"There are those who claim that Zeynep's date of birth is 1877. 
The date of birth of the people they claim to be Zeynep's 
daughter and son in their family is 1872. In other words, they 
claim that they are children born before their mother (!). But the 
courts accept the requests for intervention without sufficient 
examination."

Necati Yılmaz stated that adding such people to the file as 
interveners made the case difficult and continued as follows:

"The more parties there are, the more difficult it is. Everyone 
has the right to appeal. A lot of people, whether interested or not, 
have such rights. You are granting these rights illegally. That's
why the case drags on. A lot of people die between the two 
hearings (!). They have to participate in the cases. The court is
trying to include the inheritance certificates of people we do not 
know whether they are really heirs or not, and their children 
and their children in the case. These are the situations that 
make these cases drag on."

In this case, in which the heirs of 'Süleyman Ağa', who was 
mentioned in a similar incident in Serik district because of the 
name 'Süleyman', also intervened and caused chaos, sacks full 
of documents were created in 67 years. Lawyer Necati Yılmaz, 
one of the names who has been the lawyer of the case for a long 
time, also stated that there are bags of documents related to this 
case that has been going on since 1958 and the cases filed 
within the scope of the subject.

Generation gap.




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