A Turkish poet, Hüsamettin Koçan, says;
"Anatolia-(L'Anatolie) has sheltered these different cultures throughout the ages, and been the place where they were conceived.
I feel that they are all my kith and kin, from the Hittite king who engraved his own discourse in the rock, to the Byzantine artist who depicted an event he himself had experienced in mosaic; from the dervish in a Selchuk lodge, to any ordinary painter in TURKEY today. I feel that I am one of them and they are a part of me. A time when people are splitting into ethnic opposed factions, when national boundaries are steadily imploding, when vast cultural legacies are being smoothed by groups of a particular faith, in rejection of all but their own introverted perspective, I find this sense of kinship of vital significance."
CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD BLOSSOMS;
Where else can you find so many scientists, philosophers, gods, authors, religious and political leaders, heroes and beautiful people ?
Here are some of them;
- God of the arts, APOLLO;
- Goddess of fertility and abundance, ARTEMIS;
- Goddess of love, APHRODITE;
- God of the World's oldest wine country, where wine was first drunk and enjoyed, DIONYSUS.
- The father of religions,ABRAHAM;
- MEVLANA, the philosopher who said "Come again, what ever you are."
- HOMER, who created the Aegean legacy;
- MARCUS ANTONIUS and CLEOPATRA, who choose the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia for their honeymoon;
- NOAH, who made possible "the second life of humanity";
- THE VIRGIN MARY, St.MARY MAGDALENE and St. JOHN, saints who found peace in this land;
- FATHER CHRISTMAS, who still visits children's dreams;
- ALEXANDER the GREAT, who could not resist the temptation of Anatolia;
- PARIS, western civilization's beauty consultant;
- CAESAR, who said his famous word "veni, vidi, vici" in Anatolia;
- THALES, the matematician who predicted the eclipse of the Sun;
- HADRIAN, admirer of Anatolia and its people;
- KING MIDAS, who wanted to turn everything into gold;
- St. PAUL, who made Christianity a universal religion;
- HERODOTUS and STRABON, who recorded the history and geography of Anatolia;
- The World's first city planner, HIPPODAMOS;
- The famous commander, HANNIBAL;
- PRAXITELES, who made Knidos Aphrodite; the most beautiful sculpture in the world;
- KING CRESUS; the symbol of richness etc......... |
