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Offline nichola

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Kayaköy up for rent!
« on: September 12, 2014, 08:38:31 AM »
Up for auction 23rd October - one village! In return for its restoration...

The auction will also partially open Kayaköy's archeological site to construction and includes plans for the construction of a hotel, as well as tourist facilities that will encompass one-third of the village.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/for-rent-from-culture-ministry-fascinating-ghost-town-and-bargain-cultural-heritage.aspx?pageID=238&nID=71611&NewsCatID=341



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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2014, 11:28:48 AM »
Shuddering at the thought... What can we do Nichola... ? I don't feel I can sit back and just hope... :(

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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2014, 13:00:30 PM »
How awful, Kaya is a lovely quiet peaceful little village.   We have taken to going there quite a lot when we visit. I think it would be terrible to change the place.

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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2014, 13:53:34 PM »
I think it would be terrible to change the place.

You're too late Jacqui. It's already changed. The quad bikes, jeep safaris, tour buses, road widening schemes, extensive building of houses and hotels all over the valley etc have done that.

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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2014, 15:17:20 PM »
It changed the day expats decided they wanted to live there, it is another business opportunity just like all the building that has gone on over the last 20 years. Hopefully it will be regulated and done sympathetically.
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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2014, 15:34:12 PM »
Expats making their home around Kayakoy is hardly the same as living in an area of specific historical heritage. I'm looking to get a place in Rome, I wonder if there are any studio flats being made in the Colosseum!

Tragic and horrifying.

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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2014, 16:06:30 PM »
I think Kayakoy itself is a physical reminder of a tragic and horrifying episode of history that many Turks would prefer to forget. Turning it into a business opportunity is crass in the extreme. Rather like opening a Slave Hotel in Bristol with tiny rooms fitted out with wrist shackles and leg irons.

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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2014, 16:08:13 PM »
Shameful, there will shortly be a facebook site with sepia photographs showing Kaya as it was and people exclaiming that they remembered it like that, or more upsetting, that they don't remember it like that, as I view photos of the place I was born and bred in and can see no resemblance to what I see now and remember, as my memory has faded, whether I think it has or not! :( :(

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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2014, 17:03:15 PM »
Stupid question I know and I am sure that I already know the answer but would be very happy to be proved wrong, is there not some organisation such as our National Trust who takes over the preservation and maintenance of historic sites in Turkey?

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Re: Kayaköy up for rent!
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2014, 17:07:27 PM »
Yes, they are the ones offering it for rent as far as I know...




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