TOURISM & TRAVEL EXHIBITIONS

TOURISM IN ANTALYA
“Tourism&Travel Exhibition-Meditt Antalya”
Beautiful Views from Marina, Kekova,
Side-Aspendos, Adrasan, Demre and Center
Antalya is a famous important tourism center in Turkey. Antalya receives about

4 million foreign tourists each year and tourism is the major source of money income

for the investors and the local people. The beautiful beaches and the clean seawater

are major attractions for tourists. An integrated coastal zone management is needed

to conserve all the natural beauties and achieve sustainable tourism and development.

A good place for vacation and has lots of Historical Areas.

Museums shed light on Anatolian history

Thousands of works with traces of various cultures are on display at museums all around Turkey. Antalya, Alanya and Side museums in the Mediterranean, the ones in the eastern Anatolian cities of Erzurum and Kars, and Amasra and Ereğli museums in the Black Sea region receive great interest from visitorsANKARA - Anatolia News Agency
Anatolia is home to important historical works including the Castle of Erzurum, the Ruins of Ani in Kars and the Genocide Monument in Iğdır.
The region's four museums are the Archaeology Museum, the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (Yakutiye Madrasah), Atatürk House, and the Castle of Erzurum as a site of ruins.
On display at the Archaeology Museum are works belonging to the Karaz culture dating back 5-6,000 years. Works belonging to the Trans-Caucasus culture are also on display.
Nearly 20,000 works are being exhibited at the Archaeology Museum. Some 8,000 of them are coins, approximately 3-4,000 are ethnography works, and the rest are archaeological works. The Yakutiye Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum exhibits 750-800 works. The museum building, a monumental construction dating back to the İlhanlı period in 1310, displays ethnography works such as dresses, jewelry, manuscripts and amulets belonging to the periods ranging from the Seljuks to the Ottomans.
“Our other museum is the Atatürk House where the national struggle started. This place has vital importance because the foundation of the Turkish Republic was laid here. Objects like pictures, photos and maps in the building are also on display,” says the Erzurum Museum director, Mustafa Erkmen, adding that all the museums are open to visitors.
Pointing to the importance of the Erzurum Castle, Erkmen says there is a clock tower, a madrasah, a tomb and mosque from the Saltuklu period in the castle.
The Ruins of Ani are located on a high hill in the Ocaklı village of Kars, where there are 10 churches, a bridge, and the remains of many buildings. The ruins attract the attention of

tourists visiting the region.

IS THIS LOVE ?

THE MEDITERRANEAN IS IN HARMONY WITH YOU

The stars sweat and you are sweating too

The same wet sparkle is on your nostrils

The noise of the motor boats does not stop

The dogs bark in the distance

A moment ago a child cried

A sheet is being shaken out from Fatma's window

Ali Dumdum is swearing for hours on end

The fishermen beat the sea

These sounds are like the earth swelling the silence

It is the silence garrulous of your geraniums

We lay on the veranda last night the offshore summer breeze above us

My hands still smell of thyme

It was as though

I didn't sleep with you but was wandering the mountains

I learned from you how to write of the sea

The blue pencil is always in my hand

Like a fishing boat goes out on a trip

my teacher wife goes to school

I open out behind hertracing a north wind in my exercise book

There is an island that is just shearwatersit turns and turns in my head

The days I've lived with you became a silver circle

when your sun touched my life

I found at last that smugglers' cave as you dazzled my eyes open

Death is perhaps like washing in those dark waters stolen from you,

greener than seaweed when still,

but blue after blue soaring with every fathom

I thought my losses, my débris, my alcoholic works

all belonged to this flat world

How was I to know I was on the peak of my happiness

I understood when I went out with you

You know those ancient Greek horses with their curly manesthe trees

with their projections are like them

when the day turns to evening

The Balan Peaks marchcompanies of souls march

towards the wholeness of beauty

My woman

you are in harmony with the Mediterranean.
Can Yücel

MISS TURKEY 2007

IDEAS FOR TWO BAGS

DO YOU LIKE

TO KNIT BAGS?

TWO EASY MODELS FOR YOU...


Two different bag patterns.If you want to knit they will be serviceable.

As you know, I can't post new pictures - but
don't want to wait here doing nothing...

I'm knitting the same bags as presents !

TOURISM & DENIZLI

PAMUKKALE
Afrodisias Gate- Odeon- Theatre - Museum & Statues

On Pamukkale we can see "white" and call it COTTON CASTLE, the

Enc. Britt. has: a resort around which limestone deposits from the hot springs

have formed beautiful cascades and basins. Maybe the landscape has changed

somewhat. In particular it seems that the hotels higher up the cliffs, from

which lukewarm water came cascading down, started using this water for

swimming pools and the like, thus disturbing a fragile system. Also the number

of tourists walking the cliffs increased considerably, so the white of the cliffs is

off-white to say the least. I stayed at the bottom of the cliffs, if you walked up

a road you first past the cliffs, then the hotels, and next you arrived at ...

HIERAPOLIS, APHRODISIAS

TOURISM & BODRUM

The Castle of St. Peter at BODRUM, Turkey, on the Aegean coast.
Town, southwestern Turkey. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Kerme

(Ancient Ceramic Gulf) on the Aegean Sea, opposite the Greek Island.

ARTEMISIA II
Sister and wife of King Mausolus (reigned 377/376–353/352) of Caria,

in southwestern Anatolia, and sole ruler for about three years after the king's death.

She built for her husband, in his capital at Halicarnassus (Modern Bodrum, Turkey),

the tomb called the Mausoleum, which was considered one of

the Seven Wonders of the World.
Artemisia was also known as a botanist and medical researcher.
Artemisia ıı (Statue by an unknown artist; in the
National Archeological Museum.)

HALICARNASSUS was the birthplace of the Greek Historian
HERODOTUS. It came under Roman rule in 129 BC.
and in early Christian times was a bishopric.
The ruins of the Castle of the Knights of St.John,
Founded C. AD 1400, dominate the ancient site.

**ACTIVITY: THE WORLD'S PEACE DAY ON 1st.SEPTEMBER 2007**

AIR RACE IN ISTANBUL

AIR RACE RETURNS TO THE GOLDEN HORN
Last weekend, high speed aerobatic planes and skilled pilots took over the skies of ISTANBUL
Istanbul may be making history this Saturday, to reach the maximum attendance ever in a single sports event, attracting two millions spectators to the banks of the Golden Horn, for the fourth stop in the Red Bull Air Race World Series 2007. This may sound like a dream, but it is not; especially it was considered that last year's first Istanbul raFlying in Istanbul skies.
This year, it was easier for Istanbul to be selected host city, even as the competitions got harder, with 40 candidate cities for 11 races.
“In the first race in Abu Dhabi, the Red Bull Air Race boss was talking everywhere that the best leg of the season was Istanbul,” Aykut Ferah, the Red Bull Turkey CEO, told the Turkish Daily News, “From the atmosphere to the nightlife, Istanbul is second to none.”

ADDICTED TV OR COMPUTER ?

ADVANTAGES – DISADVANTAGES
OF WATCHING TELEVISION
Many people now agree that the television
is having a bad effect upon the children
who grow up with it.
A major problem is created by the amount
of violence that is shown on the television.
As a result people are beginning to regard violence
as an everyday event. Indeed it
rapidly is becoming an everyday event.
Will it change life styles of our children?
OR
Will they enjoy with their computers?
Which one is attractive?

OR

SAYING THEM "GOODBYE" AND SENDING

TO THEIR SCHOOL...

We will have our share of responsibilities,

discipline and homework, too…
That's life. Our babies grow up so quickly; we can only

watch it go by,

sad but true. Sending them to school this time of year

gives us a chance to sit and think again about what we do

for our children.

We have reached the end of summer and

a new school year begins.

We are back in the city from holidays now. Families will be busy with

many different errands during the week and with plans to keep

their children in cultural or sports activities on weekends.

What is important is, of course, time management.
Though it is crucial to help our kids explore their creativeness,

as mothers,

we should also maintain discipline and consistency

in their lives while they are

involved in various activities. Plus, we should prevent them from

being “fickle” as our mothers used to call us.

Experts say that if they give up

their activities too soon, it will negatively affect their education

and business life in the future. Don't pressure them too much

and don't let them give up on things easily.
I wish success for you –

to all families this new school year…With love,

CARING LACES

EMBROIDERIES
After washing and ironing, the material will be cautiously cut out from under

the sticks with sharp and pointed scissors.The embroidery is made on a

frame in order to prevent that the material would be drawn together by

the feet. Perhaps this is the "youngest" kind of embroidery and it is most

popular first of all in folk art. In the famous Italian and French lace

manufactures sewn and reel laces were made and these were extremely

time consuming. Their line-like motives were imitated by the renaissance

or Richelieu embroideries.
These embroidery techniques have been known since the age of Renaissance,

but they got an important role only when Colbert founded lace manufactures

in France. The centre of big hole sewn lace manufacturing was Sedan.
The so called English madeira consists of more defined model elements while

Richelieu or renaissance embroidery comes from the elements of free

hand drawing and wide, lace-like surfaces may be produced with it.

TABLE COVERS

IN JUNE go on hobbies!

I've just finished
this blouse for
my dear
daughters.
It took me
nearly a month
to crochet but
it's airy and ideal for summer...
Isn't it ?