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Lycian Way

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Lycian Way

Mustafa Kiziltas (Lyum 2011 first place)

“Ive been first for two years in this marathon in whichathletes from around the world compete. The Lycian Way combines rich historywith magnificent natural beauty and is one of the world` finest trails for anultramarathon. Turkey` second ultramarathon is going to be run in Cappadociathe summer of 2012. ”Birmingham, at the heart of the uk with a population of overone million, is a destination of limitless opportunity, offering visitors aneclectic mix of things to do.The city oozes style, culture and charm and attracts over 32million people a year with its level of vibrancy and excitement. Whether it isheritage, culture, food, shopping or sport, there` plenty of choice to keepyou entertained in Birmingham. Birmingham` early history as a city dates backto the early 12th century when Peter de Birmingham, holder of the manor, gainedthe right to hold a weekly market. Once famous as a city of a thousandtrade`, Birmingham is renowned for its pioneering past and was a world leaderin the production of jewelry, pens, guns, buttons and buckles.This exciting history has left visitors to Birmingham with anumber of outstanding heritage attractions to discover, explore and enjoy,including great old vehicles and machines at Thinktank Birmingham ScienceMuseum, the Motor Heritage Centre and Coventry Transport Museum.The Jacobeansplendour of Aston Hall, the delightfully restored timber-framed farmhouseBlakesley Hall and the magical Sarehole Mill in Hall Green, which formed the inspirationfor JRR Tolkien` The Lord of the Ring`, are all well worth a visit, and theBlack Country Living Museum creates a tribute to the people that once lived inthe heart of industrial Britain.Birmingham` flagship National Sea Life centeroffers a spectacular undersea voyage and is located alongside the city`beautiful and historic canals. Birmingham promises you a shopping experiencesecond to none. From clothing to jewelry, the world` leading brands and shopsoffer a rich array of products to suit your taste.

Food for thought

Over the past decade Birmingham` food scene has seen thecity transform itself into the ultimate dining destination. Birmingham has over200 topranking restaurants in the city center, spanning 27 countries across theglobe, from Europe and the Far East to the Caribbean and the Americas.Birmingham has a hugely compelling and eclectic arts scene with world class andinspirational organizations and venues right across the cultural spectrum.The diverse range of galleries, concert venues, theaters andcinemas the city has to offer are second to none. Since opening over 100 yearsago, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is now home to more than half a millionartifacts. Renaissance masterpieces, 9,000-year- old Middle Eastern treasuresand the world` largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art are all on show here.Housed in one of Birmingham` finest Art Deco buildings, theBarber Institute of Fine Arts was designed by Robert Atkinson, one of Britain`leading architects of the 1920s and 30s. And it displays major works by Monet,Turner, van Gogh and Picasso, while Birmingham` Ikon Gallery, located in theneo-Gothic Oozells Street School in Brindleyplace, features exhibitions acrosstwo floors, spanning photography, painting and sculpture.

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Rabat

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Rabat

With a history going back to the 3rd century B.C., Rabat is the capital of Morocco. A city where gleaming examples of the architecture that represents the country` colorful history are ubiquitous. Mosques, palaces, museums and markets that have flourished since the Middle Ages make up the city` architectural richness.

In addition to being the capital, Rabat has also assumed the role of representing Arab Maghreb values. With its educational institutions serving those who want to learn Arabic and familiarize themselves Morocco` syncretic culture, as well as its historic museums and palaces and its lively social life, Rabat is a highly hospitable and cosmopolitan city.

Red City Marrakesh

Mysterious, mystical, fabled… With a past going back eight centuries, Marrakesh is an authentic central Moroccan city representative of the country` entire texture. Known as Mur(n)akush in the Berber language, it means Land of God. Color is perceived when light waves of different lengths strike the retina, and there must be an inestimable number of wave lengths here for this is an ultra colorful city. The minute you set foot in it you will never forget it. You will even start to question the place where you live!

Jamaa El-Fnaaquare

The most important part of Marrakesh` medina quarter is Jamaa el-Fna Square, the first square to be taken under protection by Unesco to preserve its native life and culture. Bustling from the morning hours and never slowing down all day, it is a fairy-tale venue.

Daral Beida – Casablanca – House of White

Tranquility, love, nobility… The rose is love, the daisy innocence, bougainvillea deep thought, and Casablanca nobility. How can a city symbolize nobility? Well, how many cities have inspired the script and been the protagonist of a film about love? Casablanca in Spanish, DarAl-Beida in Arabic, Morocco is definitely a country to be added to your list of must-see places.

Time stands still in Morocco` narrow lanes with their rich tapestry of traditional architecture, a testimony to Andalusia` glorious past. Dark blue, green and bitter orange dominate the palette.

Morocco is known as Al-Maghreb (the West) in Arabic and Turkish. Embraced by the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, this remote land offers visitors different reflections of Arabic culture.

Drinking mint tea is virtually a ritual in Morocco. Prepared by boiling water in authentic pots and pouring it over fresh mint leaves in tall, thin tea glasses, mint tea is the country` best known hospitality drink.

Morocco is a country passionately attached to its ancient traditions and values, and the kingdom, which dates back centuries, is by far the most important. The King Hassan II Monument is a spot where the people of Morocco and visitors offer their respects and best wishes.

One of Morocco` biggest attractions is that you can find many different worlds here in this beautiful country. The streets of Casablanca with their European airs, the traditional leather makers of Fez, and the world` highest sand dunes in the desert of Merzuga are just a few examples.

Morocco` souks are rich in snacks and dried foods including a dizzying array of dates, nuts, dried apricots and other edibles youve perhaps never seen before in your life. Having them along as you tour the country is a special treat.

Morocco` tourism showcase, Marrakesh is world-famous for its myriad vibrant souks.

Youll surely find something to buy in its shops bursting with colorful spices, herbal teas, medicinal herbs, fragrances and kohl.

There is a wide variety of accommodation alternatives in Morocco, especially in the touristic cities of Marrakesh, Fez, Meknes and Casablanca. But the traditional Moroccan houses converted into boutique hotels are particularly recommended.

You will never tire of gazing at the Mediterranean` vast blue or the shores of Europe from the historically strategic Strait of Gibraltar.

With its delicate minarets and majestic city gates, the city of Fez is one of the best places for soaking up Morocco` history and traditional texture. Well worth seeing.

Shopping alternatives. Traditional footwear, local costumes, handmade leather goods and authentic musical instruments are just a few of the gifts you can bring from Morocco to friends and family back home. 

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Zeugma Mosaic Museum

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Zeugma Mosaic Museum

Original proportions preserved

Zeugma Mosaic Museum has also taken away the title from Bardo Museum in Tunisia, as the largest mosaic museum in the world. The museum, which is spread out on three floors and a total of 30,000 m2 of indoor space, has nearly 7,075 m2 of exhibition halls. Bath mosaics and the statue of the war god Mars dating back to 1 AC are situated below ground level while mosaics found in villas on the banks of the Euphrates are on the ground floor. The twin Poseidon and Euphrates villas, mosaics, murals, fountains, pillars and walls have been installed in their original positions and dimensions, as found in the digs.

Attention to missing pieces

The room that has been built especially for the symbolic Mainad mosaic Gypsy Girl in the first section of the second floor is striking. The Mainad mosaic, substantially destroyed by smugglers, is situated on the wall of the room designed in the form of a labyrinth. Mosaics dating back to 6 AC are exhibited alongside East Roman era church mosaics on the second floor. In many sections of the museum, the magnitude of the damage caused to mosaics by historical artefact smugglers and treasure hunters is emphasized. Photographs of stolen parts are reflected onto the missing sections of mosaics to explain that the pieces have not been recovered to this day, as in the Dionysu` Wedding mosaic.

Exhibition

Being a woman and an artist in Turkey

Dream and Reality – Modern and Contemporary Women Artists in Turkey was launched at the Istanbul Modem in September and will continue until 22 January 2012. Centred on the pioneering and critical position of female artists in modem and contemporary art, the exhibition offers a new and alternative view on Turkey` socio-cultural history, bringing Turkey` social and cultural evolution into question through the works of women-artists.

The selection by curators Fatmagul Berktay, Levent Qalikoglu, Zeynep Inankur and Burcu Pelvanoglu encompasses the production process of women artists from the early 1900s to today and includes various art disciplines from painting to video art.

The exhibition connects 74 artists from pioneering women artists whose life stories and works are little known and whose names are sinking into oblivion to rediscovered moderns and those who have given direction to the contemporary art scene for the last 40 years with their ideological dispositions and practical acts.

Fatma Aliye` novel

The exhibition is named after the novel, Dream and Reality1, cowritten by the first female Turkish novelist Fatma Aliye and Ahmet Mithat in 1891. The two-volume book featuring many of the symbolic qualities of its era is a novel about love. The dream section is written by Fatma Aliye while the section emphasising reality is by Ahmet Mithat. Fatma Aliye only appears on the cover of the book with the pseudonym A Woman. Meanwhile, the owner of the truth is man. The exhibition traces the artist` relationship with dream and reality and how they turned their dreams into reality.

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Own marketing

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Own marketing

We did our own marketing

When we first acquired the company we said we wont expand in the tour operation business; we will do our own marketing and fly customers who purchase tickets. To keep up with this, the company had to turn 180 degrees. For instance, when you fly for a tour operator and you make the customer dissatisfied, you do not suffer because the problem goes directly to the tour operator; but that is not the case in our model. If there is a problem, you have to deal with it directly.

For this reason, the first thing we did when we took over the company was to hire an English flight crew trainer to train our cabin supervisors on weekends on how to act towards the customer. In the tour operator business, everything was free. With meals, for instance, you could select two from chicken, fish and red meat. Since I did not know much about the aviation business, I said let us calculate the cost of the tray we are serving. When calculating the cost of the tray, even its weight is important. We started with this detail. We analyzed the main course.

I will never forget, there is 90g of red meat, chicken or fish in a main course. I asked the business leaders of that period, What happens if we bring the 90 grams down to 80 grams? They protested, saying, our guests are of a certain quality. Firstly, they are not your guests. Secondly, Mr. Blogs does not care if he is flying with Pegasus or some other company. Then let` do the math, I said. At the end, the cost of 10 grams turned out to be around 400,000 Euros. I said What now?, they said Let` lower it. This was a very important lesson for me. You shouldnt ask someone, `hould we do this? You need to say, `hould we do this? If we do, this will be the consequence.

Pay to send a CV

Not one of our friends who had insisted on the 90 grams are around today, because now Pegasus even charges for water. One day I read somewhere that an airline charged for job applications. Now we charge for job applications, too. Why? Let` assume you are looking for a high school graduate, 25-35 year-old employee with English skill` for a particular position. Nowadays it` very easy to send a CV online. You are 45 years old, your mother once went to England and you are applying for this job. I need three or four people to evaluate all these applications. What happens when you charge for job applications? Then you pay 15 TL to apply for a job with no guarantee that you are going to take it.

So you check the criteria and do the evaluation yourself instead of leaving it to me. Where previously, we would receive 75,000-76,000 applicants per year, that number is now between 50 and 90.1 brought this idea to our Human Resources management. The HR manager at the time said, We cant do thi`, first telling me, `uch is the present socioeconomic situation in Turkey etc., then saying, What if people hear about it? But that` what I want. Today we make 200 billion from that in a year.

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Five wanderers Paris

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Five wanderers Paris

We are in Paris, the most bohemian and entertaining capital of the world. The following pages offer shopping advice from Aysu, art info from Eril, the low-down on the music scene from Mehmet, an alternative Paris guide from Hazal, and all the best museums and exhibitions from Ozlem. Not to mention insider information from Deniz, a Paris local

He just couldnt stop pestering us, could you, rain? We arrived in Berlin. We walked around for 10 minutes, and there you were, pouring down on us; we were soaked down to our socks. Now a month has passed and this time as the Globetrotter` Club, we are in Paris.

All the underground lines are shut because of a collision between two trains; we forked out 43 Euros on a taxi but at least we have to listen to Zaz latest single La Fee on our way. We spoke too soon when we said, Look, the weather is fantastic, there` the sun, were near Gare du Nord. It poured down once more. But it doesnt matter. Hazal Yilmaz, Ozlem Sarag, Eril Serbetgi, Aysu Akagunduz and Mehmet Tez are in Paris to march to their own tunes, to mill around the streets of Le Marais, Bastille, Montmartre and Belleville.

Hazal` alternative Paris

I asked around about what people do in Bastille. You listen to rock at La Scene Bastille (2 bis rue des Taillandiers) on Thursdays. On Tuesdays, you go to play jazz at La Mecanique Ondulatoire (8 Passage Thiere) or discover new young French artists and celebrity candidates at Galerie Alain Gutharc (7 rue St-Claude); you should go for Standard Design Hotel (29 rue Taillandiers) if you need a hotel; for coffee you go to 138 (138 rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine). Tien Hiang (92 rue de Chemin Vert) is recommended for vegetarian Chinese food lovers and Chai 33 (33 Passage St-Emilion) for wine lovers.

Chez Jeanette (47 rue du Fbg-St Denis) in the Turkish neighborhood is the latest after-work hangout for Bobos (bohemian bourgeoisie). There are many English speakers here. The later you go, the busier it is.

Chevalier and Django Reinhardt, it is at 105 rue du Faubourg du Temple that you should do it.

You cannot leave Paris without having a crepe.

  1. La Petite Tour (6 rue Gregoire de Tours),
  2. Josselin (67, rue du Montparnasse),
  3. Creperie Bretonne (67, rue de Charonne).

If wine is a product of grape juice immersed in alcohol, then these are some of the best that you can find on the cheap: St-Martin Rouge, Lanquedoc; Belleruche Rouge, Cotes du Rhone; Baron de Lestac, Bordeaux.

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Hierapolis Pamukkale

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Hierapolis Pamukkale

Situated 20 km. away from the city of Denizli, Pamnkkale is most attention-grabbing locations on this planet.

Over the millennia, the calcium-oxide wealthy waters flowing down the southern slope of Qal Dagi, positioned north of the ruins, have constructed up deposits of white travertine on the plateau. These deposits clarify each the positioning’s historical identify, Hierapolis-Holy Metropolis-and its fashionable identify, Pamukkale-Cotton Citadel.

Historical Hierapolis seems to have been based by King Eumenes II of Pergamon. Its identify is derived from Hiera, the spouse of King Telephos, the legendary founding father of Pergamon. Town got here below Roman management in 133 BC. In 17 BC, through the reign of Tiberius, it suffered a heavy earthquake that considerably destroyed the town, requiring it to be rebuilt. Preliminary excavations at Hierapolis had been undertaken by a German staff in the direction of the top of the final century whereby since 1957, excavation and restoration work has taken place below the route of an Italian group of archaeologists.

Domitian Arch

The traditional metropolis was strung out on both facet of an extended colonnaded avenue referred to as the Plateia. Measuring 13 m. extensive, this avenue ran from the gateway within the south to the Arch of Domitian within the north. It was paved with enormous blocks of limestone. The primary construction one encounters upon reaching the plateau are the town baths, which have been very effectively preserved. The baths are Roman, and had been constructed within the 2nd century AD.

Within the japanese a part of the baths is a palaestra measuring 36.13 by 52.25 m.. Instantly to the north and south of the palaestra are two giant rooms that had been reserved for the emperor and for ceremonial use. A big corridor, as soon as utilized by athletes as a gymnasion, stretches the size of the western facet of the palaestra.

This corridor led into the frigidarium from which one proceeded to the barrel-vaulted rooms of the calidarium. A small room adjoining to the big corridor now serves as a museum by which artefacts found within the Hierapolis excavations are on show. Since Hierapolis was principally an opulent resort city, it was richly adorned with magnificent sculptures exhibiting the affect of the Aphrodisias college and is effectively value a go to. The theater of Hierapolis instructions an impressive view of the plain under.

The unique theater was positioned above the northern gate, however when the town was rebuilt through the reign of the Flavian emperors (60 AD) the theater was relocated, although the seats from the previous construction had been used when it was relocated. Throughout the reign of Septimius Severus (193-211 AD) the theater` skene was modified and richly adorned with reliefs. In 532 it was found that the skene had been weakened by age and the just about day by day seismic exercise that takes place right here, and it was strengthened with pillars.

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Byzantine calendar

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Byzantine calendar

After the adoption of Christianity, the Byzantine calendar “because the creation of the world” was carried out. As is thought, that calendar units the Starting – the creation of the world, and the Ending – the Second Coming, that are the terminus submit quem and the terminus ante quern of human historical past.

The implementation of the Byzantine Christian calendar of the Constantinople period earlier than the introduction of the Gregorian calendar after 1700 was compulsory not just for ideological causes, but in addition due to the spiritual cycle, with out which the newly created Bulgarian church wouldnt have been capable of carry out its cult- and customs- associated follow. In Bulgaria, as usually within the East, the system of counting the years I “since Christmas” or “because the Incarnation of Our God Jesus Christ” is a really uncommon phenomenon. There is just one inscription, which signifies for positive this type of calendar. It belongs to Omurtag and states:

“And the identify of the ruler is Omurtag, Kan Syubigi. The 12 months because the look of the true God is 820 and because the Creation of the world, 6328”

For the reason that inscription is in Greek, it was likely made within the type of the standard imitation of the Byzantine follow. The separation of the Byzantine-Slavonic Orthodox neighborhood from the Western European Latin language group can be evident in using the calendar. The completely different “calendar language” used within the East and the West is one other issue of their distancing and self-isolation.

Volga Bulgaria

The calendar is a vital issue of the cultural reminiscence of the nation which makes use of it. Volga Bulgaria is a wonderful instance of this well-known declare. The orientation in line with the celebrities, the scenario of the planets, the Solar and the Moon, belong additionally to the set of information of the Bulgarians within the area of Center Volga. That is proved by the detailed system of names of planets, separate stars and constellations, which is later saved by the so-called Kazan Tatars. The celebrities decide meteorological time through the 12 months and management agricultural actions. The Turkish explorer of the 17th century, Hadzhi Caliph, utilizing sources which havent been preserved, describes a Volga Bulgarian who makes astronomical observations far north of Bolgar.

It` believed that probably the most extensively used calendar within the area of Center Volga was the 12-year solar cyclical calendar, during which the months have names of animals. This calendar was in use till the time of the Kazan Khanate. Many late manuscripts give proof of the truth that the traditional Bulgarian calendar continued for use in Kazan through the Late Medieval Interval. That exhibits the necessary position of Volga Bulgarians within the formation of the tradition of the Khanate.

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Ottoman bricks

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Ottoman bricks

The bricks from the Ottoman era

The bricks from the Ottoman era are seen on the walls of the gallery set up by Evren Ertur. The general view of the gallery is seen. Evren Ertur collected the bricks of the old demolished olive oil factory owned by his grandfather and constructed the same by keeping the original design. In this building very quiet and humble, the technological story of the olive oil is told since the old centuries when the oil had been obtained by pressing the olives… While contemplating the original pieces, each of them with an antiquity value, you witness the story of the olive oil since the old centuries…

During the visit of the gallery, you witness which processes the story started in the stone trough has gone through from the days when the oil had been obtained by pressing the olives, which instruments had been used. Bags made of goat hair, millstone turned manually or by the animal, bags made of skin to keep the oil, screws… Then the steam power and then the current continue system… You see all of them… Here is a living source for the students, youths and those who want to improve their knowledge, a classroom for practice rather than a gallery…

Evren Ertur` family is involved in the olive cultivation since 5 generations and the Success Firman of Muderris Hilmi Efendi, the grandfather of Evren Ertur who had been the “soap maker of the sultan ” and the bronze soap moulds are exhibited too in the gallery. Ertur states that he couldt consent to see that all these instruments used in the oil production would be lost and he felt obliged to issue a cultural legacy to the next generations; we are sure that the museum-gallery where the instruments collected since 7 years by Ertur are exhibited and assisted by the Akqay Tourism Information Director Sakir Karadede will enlarge in the coming years. Contact:

Various instruments exhibited in the gallery. Like in the original, two out of the holes on the fagade of the building symbolise the olive leaf and the one in the middle symbolizes the olive grain.

“Until I die…”

This tree is a real passion for Evren Ertur dealing with the olive cultivation and olive tree since 39 years. He says that he swore not to quit the olive tree and the oil which is a passion for him until he dies; Ertur tells also romantic and historical stories about the olive:

This article is published for EnmarBg. For more interesting information about visit places Bulgaria, please visit destinations bulgaria .

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Tips From The Artists

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Tips From The Artists

With all the exhibitions opening nowadays, Istanbul is becoming a veritable art city. Catching alt of them is out of the question. If youd like to be guided by tips from the artist as you tour the major ones, just keep on reading!

“I Chose Art”

When asked what means one can use for political action, German artist Joseph Beuys replied, “I chose art. `sss’ssssNow, an exhibition, Joseph Beuys and His Student`, at the Sakip Sabana Museum (SSM) explains a lot. You have to take time to read all the panels if you want to understand… Accompanying Beuys in the exhibition, which brings together close to 350 drawings, photographs and prints, are his students, Peter Angermann, Lothar Baumgarten, Walter Dahn, Felix Droese, Imi Giese, Imi Knoebel, Katharina Sieverding and Norbert Tadeusz. Through 1 November.

“This Is Not A Retrospective!”

`ite is not a retrospective even though it covers Sarkis` 50-year career as an artist. The artist is royally annoyed if anybody says this. Hallmark of the exhibition, curated by Levent Qalikoglu, Chief Curator of Istanbul Modern, are materials that are open-ended, multi-layered and stubbornly unfinished… as well as Sarkis` constantly re-created installations, works he has saved up and breathed life into over the years, the costumes, the sculptures, the stained glass and the neons… Head for Istanbul Modem to see this exhibition, which the artist is continuously renewing. Through 10 October.

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Turkish existence in Yalvac

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Turkish existence in Yalvac

During the Seljuk period, the first Oghuz clan to settle in the region bore the name Yalvac, and this is the origin of the county` present name. The Anatolian Seljuks extended their military and political control of the peninsula eventually establishing a sultanate based in Konya.

After the Mongol invasion in the first half of the 14th century, the Anatolian Seljuk realm broke up into a chaos of successor states- small localized Turkish principalities.

Yalvac fell within the borders of one of them, that of the Hamitoglu tribe. Under their tenure, Yalvac began to grow and recover its importance.

The Devlethan (Ulu) mosque, built in the 14th century, is a work of the Hamitoglu period. This mosque, with its charming stonework and inscriptions set amidst fragrant roses, is a fine example of Turkish principalities-period architecture.

In 1380, Ottomans took Yalvac under their rule. The architectural monuments built in this period reflect the importance given to art in the Ottoman Empire. Under the Republic, Yalvac was incorporated into the province of Isparta.

Other places of interest

Men was an indigenous Anatolian moon-god whose worship can be identified as early as the 3rd millennium BC. Antiocheia was one of the most important centers of the Men cult, whose symbols appear on the city` coins and whose monuments dedicated to the god can be found in a number of places. A precinct sacred to Men is located five kilometers from Yalvac. The temple here is dated to the 4th century BC. In addition to the temple, there are also two churches, a stadium, and dwellings at the site.

Twenty-five kilometers from Yalvac in Lake Hoyran is the island of Hoyran, a historical setting whose mystical atmosphere captivates visitors. Located on the island which is surrounded by fortifications, are the remains of a temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis that seem almost to beg those who come to see them to be allowed to return to their days of former glory. Set into the craggy cliffs on the opposite side of the island are rock tombs whose positions and architectural features enchant the eye. Another important historical site on the island is a monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary that was constructed here by the faithful.

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