When Selman Turk married Nurhüda Cevahir in a lavish ceremony at a mansion overlooking the Bosphorus, a former Turkish deputy prime minister described the event as “the wedding of the two most distinguished families of Istanbul”.
Turk, now the subject of legal proceedings in London accusing him of embezzling almost £40m, was then working for Goldman Sachs, and the wedding at the Sait Halim Pasha Mansion reflected the families’ elite status. The mansion boasts golden columns, glitzy chandeliers and a view directly on to the water, a fitting venue for a bride believed to be the daughter of founders of a prominent Turkish construction firm.
