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activities supported by the Municipality of Fethiye. There has been the “Life
project” in Ölüdeniz recently supported by the European Commission as
an environmental conservation. Civil society is quite active in Fethiye with
environmental organisations, various unions, chambers. In Kayaköy, there is
the Kayaköy Cooperative established by Kaya villagers for the promotion of the
village. There is also a workshop at the village for teaching carpet-weaving to
the women by the Women’s Union. The villagers in Kayaköy are skeptic about
the investment to be done to the village, they have always been provided with
promises from various organisations, unions and parliamentarians regarding
the development and infrastructure of the village, that were never kept never
kept. While some organisations are willing to start eco-tourism in Kayaköy or
have restoration works to open it to the faith tourism, some others dream of
establishing 5 star holiday resorts in Kayaköy. The villagers just want to make
money to survive and promote their village.
KAYA VILLAGE ART CAMP
Kayaköy is lucky to have an Art Camp. Established by Mutlu Ekiz and Faruk
Akbaş, the Art Camp every summer welcomes young people all across the world
where they can have courses of pottery, photography, dance. Art Camp also
is a nice occasion where intellectuals meet and talk about Kayaköy and go
swimming or paragliding around the Butterfly Valley. Poseidon Café and the
Kayaköy Village Art Camp are amongst of the most colorful features of Kayaköy
and maybe the best way to discover this beautiful village.
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CARETTA CARETTA
Turkish-Greek team in Kayaköy
Red poppies, crickets, wild dogs, endless meetings with FETAV, municipality,
villagers, governor, museum, chamber of architects, Gürol Abi, TÜRSAB, no
map no, infrastructure, no statistics, no telephone boots installed…
But…Kaya people, small kids working for the recycle project, women wowing
carpets and kilims, Faruk Akbaş showing movies with his projector to the villagers
during the festival, welcoming smiles accompaniedby cold watermelons… Kekik
çay, otlu gözleme,
m u t l u m u t l u g ü l ü m s e !
KayaFest Youth and Culture Festival Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe