Guess what ?

This is a detail from a ............. near the roadside in my city. What do you think about it ? What kind of monument and which period of the history ?

Lonely seaside

When the autumn comes, our beaches become loneliness. This photo is taken by me from our aegean sea coasts. I believe that the best time is for holiday, nice weather and warm sea but empty beaches.

With fully loaded bike

This photo shot from my bike tour to the Gökova bay coast.

Calm and Quiet

There were boats on the calm and mirror sea with its reflections in the early morning.

Bike, Lake and Sunset

In the Lake İznik was near the sunset. There was a father with his son who was riding bike along the lake. I think he is a rich man, isn't he?

Fishing boat in the morning

He was cleaning his boat and preparing for a long day. No words ! Listen to the silence !

Summer time in Ören

Ören beach was awarded with blue flag (because of clean sea, gold sand) by Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in 2000.

Mermaid on the rock is aroused interest by people.

The ancient city of Adramyteion, which was an Athenian colony, is locaded on the western coast of the district. (Nowadays in Balıkesir province)

Pegasus

Pegasus was placed on the Adramyteions(Ören) coins in the ancient city of Adramys during the three centuries.

It is known a symbol of the honesty, humility and poetic inspiration.

Door knockers

I shot these old door knockers photos from Cunda island in Ayvalık near north-aegean. All of them are more than 100 years old.

Egyptian Bazaar (Mısır Çarşısı)

Turkish delights are famous sweets in the spice bazaar or Egyptian bazaar in İstanbul.

Arifiye Train Station

When I was waiting my delayed train to come to the station in Arifiye. I shot this colorful wagoons.

Fishing boats

Turkish style wooden boats are made by hands and wood. It is very strong boats.

Fishermen

The fishermen put out to the sea every morning and come back but day by day they find less fish in the sea due to pollution. There were more than 125 kind of fish in the Marmara sea at only 30 years ago nowadays remains less than 20 kind of fish. Who is guilty?

Where is it?

This is a street lamp mast in the middle of the Sultanahmet square at İstanbul. It has been some flowerpots over there. This is nice. But I think something wrong there ! Be careful about this sign means wc is about 50 meters away from there.

Stones

I saw these colorful stones at a shop yesterday. The seller said these stones are sold for using in the gardens, small lakes and anything you like. They said that stones comes out from land (not sea) near Ankara,capital city.I think they seem pretty into its baskets.

Life on the Wall

The wall have built many years ago and used as Hamam(Turkish bath) in ottoman days. Some ancient(from Nicomedia) stones was used on it. You can see this also in the second shot on another wall in the city.
The Turkish bath, Hamam closed and not used now it is dead but nature is always alive if people leave to grow itself. There is the life on the wall against human!

Kont İmre Thököly

Hungarian Kont İmre was born in Kesmark/Hungary in 1657 and died in 1705 in İzmit during Ottoman Empire.
This monument is established for their memory(Him and his wife) in the mountain village Karatepe who lived there in a farm for a moment. Name of this place is ''The field of flower''
Dedicated to lived away from their country...

The old railway station

İzmit train station is removed a new building and railways few years ago. And the old station in my shot is idle now . The old black train is a deadly stop on the last rail in the sevice as the restaurant and cafe.
This station was the second important stop after İstanbul/Haydarpaşa for the Orient Express.

The Gate

This gate was opened by Ottoman emperor Sultan Abdulaziz at 1874. Sultans had come to hunting to my city and after hunting they had been rest a little palace behind this gate.
There had been a forest in my city mountains only 135 years ago. But now not possible to see forest and animals for hunting! Anyway I mean hunting for photo!

Molina ( Atatürk's Flower)

Molina is the tropical flower 106 years old and about 4 meters hight now.

This tropical flower had been buy from İtaly for Atatürk (who was the founder and our first President). He had liked nature and agriculture. Now flower is inside a greenhouse in Maşukiye. Our fellows have to be proud of them therefore hanging flags and Nazar bonjuk(blue bead that worn to avert the evil eye)!

İzmit from seaside

The view from the Gulf of İzmit seaside. A bus has stopped near the beach.