IMM Deputy Mayor Aslan: Title deed of Saraçhane building transferred to Vakıflar

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) Deputy Mayor Nuri Aslan, speaking at the Forsa Performing Arts Center opened at the Golden Horn Shipyard, announced that the title deed of the IMM's main service building in Saraçhane had been taken from them and transferred to the General Directorate of Foundations.

Aslan said, 'I am telling you this in case you haven't heard,' and stated that the title deed of the Saraçhane building we are sitting in had been taken from them, that, God willing, they would be tenants in their own place, and that they had nothing else left to do. Recalling that the Yedikule Gasworks had also passed to the General Directorate of Foundations after being restored at a cost of 1 billion TL, Aslan stressed that the Müze Gazhane still belonged to the IMM.

Aslan said the transfers had not lowered the institution's morale or motivation, saying 'As the IMM, we are an institution of the Republic, and the General Directorate of Foundations is also an institution of the Republic,' and stressed that they had spent the money and completed the buildings, but that the other side had taken them, run them as museums and made money, adding that they did not resent this because the money went to this nation.