Istanbul amusement park "Tatilya" packed up and sent
to Erbil
January 16, 2007
In what has to be one of the surest signs that a
return to normalcy is on the agenda for Kurds in
Kurdistan autonomous region (Iraqi), Kurdish
businessman Malashin Barzani, a member of the
Kurdistan region President Massoud Barzani's family,
has purchased the formerly Istanbul-based amusement
park "Tatilya."
Barzani's purchase of Tatilya was for 1.1 million
dollars, and adds yet one more level of intricacy to
the growing infrastructure of the Kurdistan region,
which now boasts universities, ministry buildings,
customs offices, and a parliament.
And thus Tatilya, billed for years as being the
largest amusement park in Europe under one roof, is
now located in the Capital of Kurdistan of Erbil.
The parts and pieces of Tatilya were packaged up in
enormous containers and sent to Kurdistan (Iraq) a
few weeks ago, where they are being put back
together on a plot of land right next to a luxurious
housing compound in the Ankawa district of Erbil.
The amusement park, which had been known as Turkey's
own "mini-Disneyland" by many, had been closed down
since April, 2006.
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