THE BEACH | MAGAZINE
FROM THE
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We run this magazine especially for YOU our visitors. We would like
to hear from you, your comments, and your anecdotes. Let us fill
these pages with your ideas…you who escape the English rain to
find a welcome here…
G
ood-day to you all!
We hope that you get
pleasure and useful
information from this
edition of our beach
magazine!
If you are here for the first time you
may find the history of the area utterly
boring so skip that and concentrate
on today’s sections. However when
you come across a sarcophagus in the
middle of the road, or stumble upon
an apse hidden away in the pine-trees
you may like George Bean develop an
attachment to the area which urges you
on to discover more...!
“ Looking back over twenty-five years
of exploration in Anatolia, I remember
with most pleasure my journeys in
Lycia... the country has, at least for me, a
fascination not equalled elsewhere. The
scenery is impressive, often spectacular,
and seen by moonlight is out of this
world; and the ancient monuments,
especially of course the tombs, have a
quality of their own.”
George Bean.1958.
George Bean was a much-loved figure,
a scholar who spoke good Turkish but
was quite retiring. Generally alone,
he accessed most of the sites on foot.
There were no fleets of dolmus* or
even asphalt roads. Taxi services were
performed by Bulgarian Java motorbikes with side-cars often carrying 4+
people. These were easy days; one could
measure a sarcophagus without anyone
wondering why. Try measuring one
now! You will be told it is ‘forbidden’!
After all Turkey is trying to get into the
European Union…we think? But what
would Turkey lose? Or what would she
gain? Would the famous kokorech* be
the first to go? An unknowing person
arriving in Fethiye would imagine that
Turkey was in the EU anyway! Supermarkets vying for custom designer
handbags, dog biscuits etc. When you
discover that most of the these stores
are owned by the same company
offering the same discounts and that
the handbags are genuine fakes, you
realise that luckily Turkey has not
reached the standards required.
For example; Bitlis is a name we know
for its aromatic black tobacco. Due to
the introduction of American Virginia, it
is no longer grown. The West is already
fashioning and pruning the every-day
Turk. Go to Bitlis and you will still find
some genuine ones!
Keep in touch with us. Let’s make ‘Olu’
a special place. Let’s fashion her into
something different from other resorts.
Maybe she does not have a disco that
can hold 3000 people…(like Caesar’s
in Antalya) and hopefully will not, or
a golf course, but where would you
fit in a golf course anyway? There are
too many beautiful forests. Would you
cull thousands of trees for the sake of
a Golf Course? Maybe one day we will.
Your opinion is important. Think of the
‘dolphin drama’ in Hisaronu several
years ago. Without the support of the
foreign inhabitants and well-wishers we
would not have been able to put an end
to the dolphins’ misery and re-habilitate
them into their natural surroundings.
We may not be able to ‘change the
world’ but with you and your ideas we
can create a great OLU.
OUR
TEAM
CHIEF IN EDITOR Anthea Gurkan PROJECT MANAGER Zahida Shah MARKETING MANAGER Cem Gurkan
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Deniz Konca ART DIRECTOR Julie Emery PHOTO COORDINATOR Baris Akyurt
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