Master Assistances, which was put into practise with a focus on protecting and managing assets of domestic and foreign real estate investors in Türkiye, especially housing and real estate under the umbrella of Legal Assurance, brings a completely new perspective and understanding of service to the real estate world.
Master Assistances, which offers its users all the services in its field of activity with the guarantee of the law, assumes both the legal and financial responsibility for its clients and carries out the management of their properties.
Lawyer Azim Çiğil is a graduate of the Marmara University Faculty of Law. He successfully completed his studies at Yeditepe University Faculty of Law, Department of International Trade and Arbitration.
He has been practising law for more than 20 years since 2000 and is a member of both the Istanbul Bar Association and the European Bar Association.
Azim Çiğil, who started his professional career at Arthur Andersen, one of the international consulting firms, continued his career in companies such as Ernst & Young and Moore Türkiye and provided legal and consulting services in many fields with the expert team of "Azim Çiğil Law Office", which he founded in 2007. At the same time, he participated as a corporate partner in many projects in the fields of Public Relations, Procurement, Publishing, Insurance, Construction and Distribution as an "entrepreneur".
Combining his identities as a lawyer, tax expert, financier, project developer, investor and restructuring specialist with his experience in national and international law and business, he founded the company "Master Assistances Gayrimenkul Yatırım Danışmanlık Dış Ticaret A.S.", the first in Türkiye and in the world.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Located between the historic artillery station in the Buyukdere district, where the Ottoman Empire hosted foreign representatives and officials, and the Hotel de Bellevue, one of the first hotels to open in 1840 as part of the modernisation trend, Azim Çiğil Mansion was built in Ottoman architecture. It is believed to be the mansion where the German pianist Franz Liszt, referred to in historical sources as the 'King of the Piano", stayed on his tour, giving a concert at the 'Hotel de Bellevue' on 18 June 1847 at the invitation of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid Han, known as a lover of classical music. The mansion, which was damaged in the fire that also destroyed the Hotel de Bellevue, was rebuilt in 1901 by Ahmet Tevfik (Türegün) Efendi, the son of Kadi Ahmet Hilmi Efendi and one of the grandchildren of Minkarizade Şeyhülislam Yahya Efendi, Yahya Efendi, a graduate of the Civil Service University and the Law University, who also served as Governor of Istanbul (Governor) and was also a teacher of administrative law. The mansion, which had completed its useful life by the 1990s, was rebuilt in the 2000s by Melisa Çilkız Brownscombe, a lecturer in law in England. The mansion, whose construction was not completed, was bought and restored in 2021 by lawyer Azim Çiğil, giving it its current appearance. (Kaynakçada yardımcı olan Hüseyin Daşdan ve Prof. Dr. Dinç Aladağ’a teşekkürler.)
CURRENT STATUS The restoration of Azim Çiğil Mansion, one of the pearls of the Bosphorus, with a total size of 750 square metres on a plot of 1,250 square metres, was carried out by the team founded and led by Azim Çiğil under the supervision and with the approval of the Istanbul Bosphorus Development Directorate, Istanbul KUDEB, Sarıyer Developmen Directorat and the Monuments Committee. The 2nd Degree Historical Artefact as a mansion and outbuilding located in Istanbul Sarıyer Büyükdere was purchased in 2021 and its restoration was completed in 1 year, bringing it into the world of today and tomorrow.
