Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum => Topic started by: philrose on March 07, 2016, 14:20:58 PM
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Oh dear..........
(http://s7.postimg.org/aglpogu9z/ballet.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/aglpogu9z/)
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I rather like the statues? Not sure of the flowers. I'd have to see it myself .
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Hmmmm ........ very modest. ;)
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Grand opening tomorrow.....
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Saw the ballerinas being delivered today, and got stuck behind the slow delivery lorry, which is why perhaps I am not enamored with them! Anyway I am sure this will lead to a tourist vs living here split, but is it ballerinas and other mod art, or should some of this money be spent on decent roads. My vote is for the latter.
Call me a philistine (I'm not) call me a miserable old sod (I could be) but the roads around the seafront at Calis are a disgrace, and are being made worse daily by the 18 wheeler delivery lorries and concrete mixers to the 5* hotel building site. We'll have another year of the council doing nothing in Calis again, particularly the roads and paths, and the place looks like it is going downhill... but who cares no one is coming this year but the Calis die-hards!!
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I wonder who thought this one up. What could we add to the Kordon to bring in the tourists? Hmm 15 foot high plastic ballerinas. Yep! That'll do it......
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Its a Memorial Garden for the murdered Mersin student Ozgecan Aslan, and to all the victims of domestic abuse in Turkey which is why its being opened by Mayor Saatchi tomorrow, International Women's Day.
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Have a read philrose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_%C3%96zgecan_Aslan
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Ah it is another vanity project for Mayor Saatchi, or perhaps the near completion of his big vanity project the Korden. Will he ever look at the work that needs doing in other areas, like Calis, before any more of his vanity projects? I don't think so, he is -as I have said before - out to leave a legacy .... but I would prefer to call it Project All Fur Coat and No Knickers.
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No idea that it's supposed to be a memorial park. Genuine question though, what's the ballet/Fethiye connection? According to the article the poor victim was going to be a psychology student and not a local....
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I think it looks lovely, and it's got to be better than just looking at a square bit of concrete. It's also a lovely memorial garden to the murdered student.
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Apparently they have been taken down as they are indecent. (You could see their legs?)
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Looks like a building site this morning.
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We walked past this morning the Ballet part had gone, they were working hard on it.
and we thought it looked realy impressive
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Sorry to be a whinger... but maybe the money would be spent cleaning up the water in the bay that these overlook...?
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I am quite proud that Fethiye, of all the places in Turkey, has invested in a memorial for Özgecan Aslan and that it was opened on International Women's Day.
The statue at the centre of the Memorial Park depicts a girl being lifted to the heavens by a phoenix. Özgecan's mother was in attendance and said a few words.
(http://s21.postimg.org/bsnqfvedf/statue.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/bsnqfvedf/)
(http://s18.postimg.org/pxpet3ynp/statue_2.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/pxpet3ynp/)
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Nice post Nichola. It is a little ironic that people may be questioning what it has to do with Fethiye when the city itself is named after a famous Turk who had nothing to do with place.
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Thanks Colwyn.
Latest news on the statues of the dancers is that they were removed because they dwarfed the main memorial statue and another location will be found for them! So says the Mayor.