The last Çalış Car boot sale of the winter season takes place on Sunday 22 April and it is expected to be very busy.
If you are intending to have a stall at the boot sale, this is your last chance as the boot sales then stop for the summer season, resuming again in September.
The popular [...]...
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by Chris Herdel
Chris Herdel is a painter and photographer from Prague. He is also teaching as a free lecturer “European Iconography” at different universities in Europe.
The courses are divided in a theoretical (art history-history of Europe) and a practical part (drawing / painting/ paper works). The workshop should result in a better orientation for the participants [...]...
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Nearly twenty years ago Louis de Bernières visited Kayaköy, a valley near Fethiye in southwest Turkey. This beautiful valley is the site of a town once lived in by Muslims and Greek Orthodox Christians, all Ottoman subjects, who together with millions of others, from various regions around the Mediterranean, were forced apart in a traumatic [...]...
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4TH YEŞİLÜZÜMLÜ & DISTRICT
MOREL MUSHROOM FESTIVAL
13th, 14th & 15th April 2012
13th APRIL 2012: Friday
14:00-15:00
Opening Events
Turkish drums and pipes
traditional music
Folk Dancing by Yeşilüzümlü Primary School pupils
opening speeches
Complimentary servings of traditional mushroom soup
15:00-18:00
Panels (chairman) Naci Dinçer
local grape cultivation and wine production Dr. Mustafa Temimhan [...]...
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Parkomat, complete with a team of orange-coated parking attendants, a system that has been operating successfully in Fethiye for many years, has been suspended for the time being. Officials insist this is only a temporary hitch and that a new contract will be forthcoming.
Reports confirm that because of a recent dispute, which occurred during the [...]...
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Fethiye’s resident movie star, Mike Mitchell, is rapidly moving up the film industry ladder and scaling new heights in the process. With so many roles in the pipeline Mitchell had better have a year planner at the ready as the timing is daunting in its intensity: he is now rehearsing for the April filming of [...]...
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In the last edition of Land of Lights we reported on the help given to Bozalan village school by local fundraising group Calis Children’s Charity.
This week we are reporting on two more village schools that have recently benefited from the charity’s help.
Prior to Christmas both Eldirek and Ortaköy Primary schools, two large outlying village schools [...]...
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Helen Parry Jones was just four years when she realised for the first time that she was the only one able to see the dogs and cats she was playing with, and the silent man in army uniform sitting in the armchair in Granma Lilly’s front room. Soon she was seeing all manner of spirit [...]...
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2012 should be an exciting year for the ‘Taste of Fethiye’ agricultural project with the start of fruit and vegetable production displaying the new logo. Farmers involved in the project have received workshops on sustainable farming as well as marketing techniques to reduce the amount of chemicals and pesticides used on the crops. To support [...]...
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After a week of news reports, as much about official uncertainty, conflicting statements, unsubstantiated rumour and gossiping frenzy rather than definitive information about the introduction of mandatory health cover for foreign nationals living in Turkey through the SGK under law 5510, last Wednesday evening there must surely have been a collective sigh of relief from [...]...
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