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Residential property sales in Türkiye jumped 16 percent from a year ago in July, according to latest data released on Tuesday while sales to foreigners increased by 16.1 percent.

A total of 127,088 houses changed hands last month, up from 109,548 in July 2023, a Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) report showed.

In a concerning revelation, the ad hoc committee investigating the activities of Gleb Myshin uncovered that over the past three to four years, a staggering 343 candidates from the Russian Federation seeking Bulgarian citizenship were discovered to have submitted falsified documents.

Housing rent prices in the Mediterranean province of Antalya have skyrocketed from 2,500 to around 10,000 Turkish Liras (from $170 to nearly $680) due to high demand from Ukrainians and Russians, Antalya Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ATSO) executive Mustafa Ayanoğlu has said.

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Turkey's Mediterranean resort province of Antalya will likely host nearly 3 million tourists from Russia this year, according to Russian Consul General in Antalya Oleg Rogoza. 

Rogoza noted that more than 3 million Russians visited Antalya annually before the diplomatic crisis between the two countries erupted at the end of 2015.

Turkey's new citizenship rules are expected to encourage real estate sales amid stagnating property sales to foreigners, which fell by 20.3 percent to 18,189 properties in 2016. 

The Russian journalist and  United Russia MP Pyotr Tolstoy has described his statement about Bulgaria as humourous and assured that he had no intention of offending the country or its citizens, reported BGNES.

Tolstoy specified that he had merely pointed out the fact that Russians purchase actively real estate on the territory of Bulgaria.

Iraqis bought more properties in Istanbul last year than any other foreign buyers, while the biggest foreign buyers of property in southern Antalya province were Russians, according to Turkish Environment and Urban Affairs Minister Fatma Sar?.

Public support in Russia for the country's air strikes in Syria has slipped since the Kremlin launched its air campaign more than four months ago, a poll showed on Feb. 15, but a comfortable majority still backs the bombing.