Traditional village barn with field of
buttercups |
Example of recently built village house |
Several new houses in the village |
Çayıriçi
Köyü
village mosque & cemetery |
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Çayıriçi
Köyü in spring |
View across Çayıriçi
Köyü &
mountains to the west |
Two of my hosts in the village, Bahri Bahadır
& Hasan Şahin |
View of Çayırbağ
Köyü looking
north toward the Black Sea |
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Spring planting in the village |
Morning traffic on the village road |
Bahri Bahadır and his
mother |
Late afternoon outside the village coffee house |
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Host Bahri Bahadır with his
wife, mother, and neighbors |
Early spring on the yayla |
Yayla summer homes await the arrival of villagers and
their dairy cattle |
Ruins of an old style yayla home |
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Sheep and goats precede the dairy cattle to summer
yaylas |
Snow on yayla in late spring
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Fog from the Black Sea rolls onto the yayla in the
late spring |
Trusty chauffeur Hüseyin Uzun on our tour of the
yaylas |
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Yayla community of Kadırga |
Touring the yaylas with Hasan Şahin,
Bahri Bahadır and Hüseyin Uzun |
Yayla community of Eskala |
Newly repainted Çayıriçi
köyü village school on a foggy morning |
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My host, the village mayor, with his wife, daughter
in law, and two grandchildren |
The village mayor was very (!) proud of his new house |
Only one floor of the village mayor's new house is
finished |
The nearby town of Tonya now has a "supermarket" |
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Mosque in the central square of the market town of Tonya |
With my village hosts in the office of the Mayor of Tonya |
My hosts pause for a pose in Akçaabat, on the way to Trabzon |
My village hosts drop me off at the meydan in Trabzon at the end of
my visit |
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