The Ghost Village Of Kayakoy

Kayakoy phantom town lies a short separation from the clamoring and well known resorts of Fethiye and Olu Deniz. It is left, it is inert, the houses are disintegrating and the boulevards are unfilled.

Be that as it may, there is an atmosphere and a staggering nearness that drifts over the town. A few guests won’t not detect it, but rather I did and it washed over me in waves.I really trust that since I looked into the history before going, I could value my visit much more.

I could envision the catastrophe that made the natives turn on their companions, forsake their homes, their fantasies and all that they knew.

Kayakoy may be a phantom town yet creative energy and research unquestionably influences it to wake up.

Turn of the 19th century – Kayakoy Village

Toward the start of the nineteenth century, Kayakoy was in full stream. Schools, houses of worship, shops and business worked in concordance. Life was great. The town was flourishing as a network.

The bend and most essential piece of its history lie in the way that inside the village, Greeks and Turks lived next to each other. The Greeks called the town Levissi while the Turks called it Kayakoy.

Outside their religions and tutoring, the Greeks and Turks incorporated with each other, having a similar shared objective and that was to get past life without rushing too much.

The Ghost Village of Kayakoy and Birds without Wings

Understanding the past and day by day life of this phantom town is vital. One man place it into preferable words over I ever could. I unequivocally exhort perusing a book called “Feathered creatures Without wings” by Louis de Bernières, a similar man who composed Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Presently, Louis has never said that the area of the book is Kayakoy nonetheless; I need to cite him in an interview by the Guardian daily paper.

‘I went to south-west Turkey and there’s an apparition town there. It used to be a blended network, as portrayed in the book pretty much, and they clearly had a superb lifestyle, very advanced. A tremor at long last devastated the town in the Fifties, yet it really began to pass on when the Christian populace was deported. It was strolling around that exceptionally unique place that gave me the thought .The town, called Eskibahce in the book, will be unmistakable to the individuals who know Turkey, ‘however I’m not going to go round telling individuals’.

The Turkish-Greek Population Exchange

The loss of the First World War, the finish of the Ottoman Empire and the endeavored Greek control of the Anatolian district, all joined to drive the decrease of Kayakoy. Greek Christian natives were compelled to go to Fethiye harbor for expulsion and Muslim Turks were ousted from Greece.

The greater part of the returning Turks did not have any desire to settle in Kayakoy. Of the ones that were at that point there, well they cleared out when the quake hit. The fact of the matter is however, a blend of verifiable occasions constrained individuals to leave their companions, neighbors, homes and evacuate their kids. Entire lives changed always when the marking of the bargain for the Turkish Greek Population trade, occurred.

Present Day Kayakoy

These days, the phantom town is one of the greatest vacation destinations for Fethiye and the encompassing resorts. A couple of local people offer nourishment and souvenirs to passing sightseers and there are some involved houses from the fundamental pack of left properties on the slope.

With a push to proceed onward from the past, UNESCO named Kayakoy a world companionship and peace town. Strolling around the town is intriguing however you will value it more,  in the event that you investigate the history in advance.

Tours and Getting There

There are numerous visits working from Olu Deniz and Fethiye yet everybody I know,  who went on them whined of an absence of time and absence of chronicled information by the guide. Rather, there are standard neighborhood transports from Fethiye that will get you there in ten minutes.

Diving into the historical backdrop of Kayakoy and afterward strolling around the betrayed town was extraordinary compared to other features of my southwest drift trip. To have the capacity to remain there and envision life for the Greek and Turks who lived next to each other, it makes you understand that religion does not need to have an influence in fellowships.

Lamentably, the nationals of Kayakoy were pawns in a defining moment battled by the higher specialists. War destroyed their town and a similar oversight is as yet rehashed today in numerous different nations and towns everywhere throughout the world.

Readers Question : Have you been to Kayakoy? Did you enjoy it as much as I did?