My place overseas

[Scunner]

I take it from everyone's silence, there are no hard facts to substantiate the original allegation?

My recollection was that the incident was ultimately not denied. The cause/reason/build up to the attack was disputed. So it happened, but take your pick on the stories as to why?

[Colwyn]

Since we now seem to be mulling over the history of Uzumlu on this forum I'll throw in a contribution. The first time I ever heard of the place was when there was all that hoohah over the cement factory. Whatever happened to that?

[KKOB]

Nothing.

[Scunner]

Nothing concrete anyway

[Eric]

We stopped it from being built!
 

[Scunner]

Fi & Eric scared them off

[Menthol]

In my opinion, Uzumlu is very beautiful. When I first started house hunting in Turkey, I deliberately didn't take my husband to see any properties in Uzumlu.
I knew he would want to live there. I also knew that it wouldn't suit our children who are all in their 20s or their various friends and my extended family as they wanted to be nearer Fethiye and Olu Deniz.

My husband confirms my thoughts every time we drive up to or through Uzumlu and berates me for not giving him the opportunity to live there.

[kawasakikid]

Free speech is something we should defend at all times, that is why all opinions are allowed to stay on CBF, we do not censor those from people who like things that are different to those we personally like. The problem with many people is that the free speech they value is just their own.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire.

Je suis Charlie Hebdo and all that!

[Colwyn]

We stopped it from being built!
 

Well done you. There must have been singing and dancin' in the streets - until the arguments and fighting broke out that is.

[kawasakikid]

I take it from everyone's silence, there are no hard facts to substantiate the original allegation?

My recollection was that the incident was ultimately not denied. The cause/reason/build up to the attack was disputed. So it happened, but take your pick on the stories as to why?

If one party to a dispute chooses not to post on a public forum for a multitude of reasons, then why is it assumed the incident happened? Or put it another way, the allegation must be the truth?

"Take your pick on the stories as to why?"
What? This is an invitation to add yet more speculation on something that is just that, a story- no more, no less.  Correct me if I am wrong, but this "story" was posted by a person who was not even in the country at the time, who was recounting something that her daughter claimed to have previously witnessed. 

Why let the facts get in the way of a good "story" eh?