The meeting where the council decision will be taken regarding the TOGO towers, which has not fallen off the agenda of Ankara, was held today under the chairmanship of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş. At the meeting, it was decided to demolish the already sealed towers.
There has been a new development regarding the TOGO towers, which were built by Sinan Aygün, a former CHP deputy and former Ankara Chamber of Commerce President.
Ankara Metropolitan Municipality announced that the demolition decision was taken for TOGO towers.
“AK PARTY AND MHP MEMBERS DID NOT PARTICIPATE”
Announcing the decision on its social media accounts, Ankara Metropolitan Municipality made the following statement:
At the meeting, the letter written to our Municipality by the Ankara Governorship Provincial Directorate of Environment and Urbanization, various judicial decisions and zoning legislation were evaluated together, and the decision to demolish the currently sealed towers was taken.
Although the decision to reduce the precedent to 1.5 percent in the Municipal Assembly was taken unanimously by all political parties; AK Party and MHP members did not attend today's council meeting where the demolition decision was taken.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Discussions about TOGO twin towers started in 2016. The zoning plan change regarding the twin towers was approved when Melih Gökçek was the Mayor of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (TMMOB) Chamber of Architects Ankara Branch filed a lawsuit against the change in the zoning plan for the construction of the twin towers on the grounds that it was "contrary to the public interest". The court found the amendment contrary to the public interest.
THE CONSTRUCTION WAS SEALED ON DECEMBER 16, 2019
Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and the intervening Sinan Aygün Gayrimenkul Yatırım A.Ş. and TOGO Gayrimenkul Yatırım A.Ş. appealed this decision, but the court of appeal decided that Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and its intervening Sinan Aygün Gayrimenkul Yatırım A.Ş. and TOGO Gayrimenkul Yatırım A.Ş. In the period of Mustafa Tuna, who took office after Melih Gökçek's resignation in 2017, the zoning change of the construction was canceled by the court, but the construction was not sealed.
Taking into account the court's decision to reduce the towers of 1,5 square meters to 120 thousand square meters, the AKP group had previously voted to reduce it to 30 precedents. However, when the demolition of the towers came to the agenda in order to bring them down according to a court decision, this time an "annotation" was put on the same subject upon the instruction of the AKP group.
It was understood that the construction level of the TOGO towers, which were built by Aygün and Mehmet Akgül, increased from 30 percent to 70 percent during the process when the court decision was hidden from the Metropolitan Mayor Mansur Yavaş.
Mansur Yavaş was elected as the Mayor of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality on March 31. The municipality did not appeal the court decision in a higher court, and the construction was sealed on 16 December 2019.
25 million allegation of bribery
Sinan Aygün claimed that Mansur Yavaş and his team demanded a bribe of 25 million TL from him in exchange for taking the court decision in favor of TMMOB to a higher court. Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Mansur Yavaş filed a criminal complaint against Sinan Aygün, who accused him of asking for bribes.
SLOW: HE WANTED TO REMOVE ME
Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Mansur Yavaş, in a live broadcast he attended on March 24, 2021, said that Sinan Aygün, whom he was prosecuted because of TOGO Towers, wanted to have him dismissed for bribery slander.
Expressing that he was set up for a trap, Yavaş said, “He wanted to have me dismissed, this is the first time I'm saying it here. They said that the metropolitan municipality wanted bribes from us and they set up a bench.”
ABOUT TOGO TOWERS
Located at the intersection of Ankara's important transportation arteries, Togo Towers was designed as a mixed-use business and living center consisting of office and commercial areas shaped around a square.
With a fiction that creates an urban space, independent commercial units and social areas are located in the lower clusters, while offices are located on the upper floors. The square, designed with a special landscape between the blocks, can be seen from all directions and access to this area is possible from every direction.
Various sized commercial units and eateries are designed in Togo Towers. Showrooms, cafes, restaurants, private outlets, bookstores, banks and service shops will serve here.
Offices are offered in different sizes that allow them to be combined at any time. If desired, it can be a single full-floor office, or six offices can be obtained on a single floor. In Togo Towers, where a special texture is created with different balcony designs, the opening wing systems that provide natural ventilation to the working spaces surround the entire facade in a modular order.
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