The sadness of the Bosphorus: The story of the 260-year-old Saffet Pasha Mansion

Many things have happened at Saffet Pasha Mansion in Kanlıca in its 260-year history. It hosted sadness, pain and bankruptcies. The mansion hosted pashas, princes, duchesses and world-famous writers such as Agatha Christie. The 1966 movie 'Wren' was shot here. Now he is waiting for his end in the most beautiful corner of the Bosphorus.
The loneliness story of Saffet Pasha Mansion, the sad pearl of the Bosphorus... Saffet Pasha Mansion in Kanlıca, which witnessed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, hosted sadness, pain and bankruptcies in its 260-year history. The mansion, which passed from the Simavi family to Dinç Bilgin and from Ahmet Sapmaz, one of the founders of Akbank, to the Toksöz family, is now awaiting the outcome of the court, majestic but with a heavy heart.
Saffet Pasha Mansion, which has witnessed the magnificence of Istanbul for centuries with its elegance in the cool waters of the Bosphorus, is nowadays struggling with a sad silence in the shadow of the past. While this 260-year-old historical structure was once known as one of the most magnificent corners of the Bosphorus in its glorious days, it is now moving towards the painful end of a fairy tale due to the twist of fate. While Ahmet and Zafer Tokgöz, the two brothers behind Sagra Gıda's famous brands, preserved the mansion as the symbol of their family, this mansion, which their mother Sebahat Hanım carefully kept alive, was their common legacy. However, after their mother passed away three years ago, this magnificent structure became a point of contention between the siblings. The cool waters of the Bosphorus witnessed the problems experienced by his brother Ahmet Tokgöz and Zafer Tokgöz. This internal conflict between the brothers resonated in the courtrooms, and the mansion was valued at as high as 100 million dollars. Yalı's name was last mentioned in the petition filed by Zafer Tokgöz, who requested concordat for Arven İlaç, Verona İlaç and Montero Gıda. When Saffet Pasha Mansion, one of the most senior mansions on the Bosphorus, was built by Edhem Efendi in 1760, he did not know that it would host sad stories. The mansion, which hosted pashas, princes, duchesses, and world-famous writers such as Agatha Christie and Somerset Maugham during the Ottoman period, with its unique view and elegance, takes its name from II. He received it from Saffet Pasha, who was the foreign minister and grand vizier during the reign of Abdulhamid. 
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