Gunlukbasi ???

[Kevin Sowten]

If you walk from Gunlakbasi up the Catalarik (Uzumlu) road but turn right immediately (after the bakery)
you enter a very run down area (we call it the shanty town) with a canopied square and a couple
of very popular (with the men) cay bars.
This is the area where we always get accosted by kids (and mums holding babies) asking for money
as we walk to Patlangic for the Saturday market.
Has this area got its own name or is it just part of Gunlukbasi ?

[GordonA]

Part of Gunlukbasi. Loz & I walked from our home in Akarca, up through that area some years back, & just before that covered area, a little boy of 3 or 4, dropped his kecks & "vacated his bowels, right in front of us !! Nice habits !!!! 

[Kevin Sowten]

That's the place !!!! 

[Kevin Sowten]

The walk from beyond there to Patlangic (through open farmland) is really nice.

[puma]

that area is where the gypsies live, so i was told by a taxi driver

[angela]

I can  believe that, there is certainly an air of poverty around,  but  having said that, the young lady who waved her baby at us and asked for money was plump and healthy looking, as was the little one!

[loz]

The area Gordon referred to is now very different, he is talking about 2003/4,  it is on the road to Uzumlu, just before the dried up riverbed and bridge crossing Catarlik and turn right.
It was some way off from Gunlukbasi shops.   


Kevin the walk to Patlangic and Karchula markets along the fields is indeed a lovely walk, I assume it is the dirt road running parallel with the dried river bed?  I usually start that walk opposite the Darinci chicken restaurant and Shell petrol station as right by us in Akarca.  bit much in the summer heat though.

[Kevin Sowten]

Its the tarmac road that comes out next to Tespos - having passed the 'new' mosque on the left.
(past all the tomato greenhouses)

[angela]

I love that chicken place!, Where do the divisions begin and end between Gunlukbasi, Akarca, and Babatasi, I can never figure them out.

[lance]

Gunlukbasi up to the bridge Catalarik after bridge ,most of the gippos were moved out last year only three families there now ,two are are the ones who sell the roses ,i think if we eat what they eat mainly bread we would be that shape as well ,mind you some of us who dont eat bread are that shape .