Qatar: Emir Tamim’s Turkish Mansion

Emir Tamim Bin Hamad is thought to have bought a $100m mansion in Istanbul, according to the Turkish press. A report in English-language Today’s Zaman on 28 March noted that the emir viewed the 64-room home on the banks of the Bosphorus while in Turkey earlier in March. It claimed that the property had been purchased on the emir’s behalf by a London-based real estate company owned by Mana Al-Hajri, whose daughter Anoud Bint Mana Al-Hajri is the emir’s second wife (married in 2009). According to Today’s Zaman, the property, known as Erbilgin Yalısı, was at one time owned by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II’s son Sehzade Burhaneddin, who bought it in 1911.