The place where we live is a holiday resort, neighbouring a small village named Bademli. Bademli is a small village in any sense, it takes no more than 10 minutes to finish the whole village, and the owner of any single shop you drop into will give you a detailed profile of all the villagers you would possibly meet if you spend the entire day there. Life was and remains to be quiet and organized, starting from the first prayer at 5 in the morning and finishing by the cheering for a football game late in the evening. In Bademli you don’t even need a watch to see the time because you could easily figure it out either by the position of the sun or the things people have been up to. But if you think that’s what turkey is all about, you’re definitely wrong. There’re cosmopolitans like Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir where over 30% residents are living and all kinds of things are going on. Like anywhere else in the world, Turkey is also going through rapid process of urbanization which gives rise to a number of social issues. (read essays on Turkey’s urbanization)
Click here to see a day in Bademli.
COMING SOON: Interview with a villager in Bademli, see how urbanization changed his way of life.
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