Inside Turkey's eerie abandoned 'fairytale' town where no one lives

Burj Al Babas in Turkey makes for a rather strange ghost town (Image: Chris McGrath/Getty Images) The Turkish town of Burj Al Babas, situated near Mudurnu and equidistant from the tourist hotspots of Istanbul and Ankara, presents an eerie sight. It lies deserted and abandoned, a decade after its construction began. The whimsical homes of Burj Al Babas were the brainchild of property moguls, the Yerdelen brothers, who helm the property development company, the Sarot group.

Their vision was for the village to consist of 732 three-story luxury villas, constructed in the Western Gothic style. However, since the commencement of construction in 2014, not a single house has been completed, leaving only empty shells standing at the site now. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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