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platform for street animals in Akyaka has expressed the wish to valuate
force against street animals not only as misdemeanour but as a criminal
offence in the future. They started a petition campaign to reach this
aim.
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 In
our new exhibition we present the mostly abstract and semi- abstract paintings of
Ülkü Onur to
you. She participated in the design lectures of the Ankara
Painting and Sculpture State Museum in 1994 and continued her studies 1995
at the Ankara Art and Manufacturing Studio where she learned oil painting
techniques from Kayhan Keskinok. On August 27. at
18hrs. everybody is welcome again for the free opening cocktail.
The exhibition will be open for nine days, every day from 16 - 19 hrs.
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Compassion for Animals = Affection for People =
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 The
street animals of Akyaka have lost their mother, we have lost an
esteemed voluntary and beloved friend- we have lost Itır İnselbağ last
Friday, 23rd July 2010.
Like many people, who choose Akyaka, Itır did not
only live here, but had taken a concrete and esteemed place in this
newly developed composite community through her self chosen mission. She
attended to street animals and fulfilled her task with passion.
A commemoration meeting for Itır İnselbağ will be held on Friday, the
30th July, at 10.30h in the Municipality Park.
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 The
first exhibition of this year we opened on May, 19 at 1800
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Our
Water Heritage Past and Present,
one side of the exhibition is showing the past, the other side gives an idea
of the present of our Water Heritage, the differences between the two and
their reasons are exhibited in between. This design attempts to remind us
that water is not a never ending resource, that it requires our
consciousness and respect and that it is the basis of our lives.
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G.A.S.-Der submitted their River Footpath Proposals to the Akyaka
Municipality
_smalla.jpg) The Akyaka Municipality carried the sensitive subject of
planning a footpath along the river on to the town's civil platforms
with their request for active participation in actual designing the path
(document number 1672
from the 25th November 2009). Since our association was very
busily working on other issues a prolongation was granted to us and we
could finally submit our proposals on the agreed date, the 15th
January 2010.
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Euromed
Heritage IV / We are the Turkish Coordinators of the REMEE Project"
Rediscover together the Heritage of Water"
 G.A.S.-Der is coordinating the
Turkish part of a major Euromed Heritage IV Project, REMEE, which aims
at the "Protection of Water Heritage". REMEE is implemented in French
and English and you can learn more on
our website. A
flyer in English
and Turkish and several newsletters in English and French are also ready
to download from there. A
communal website
can provide you with the general aspects of this important project, we
are also mentioned on the official
Euromed Heritage webpage. All official and communal websites are
in English and French.
We have furthermore started a documentation and archive website about
water heritage which is a real "source" of knowledge:
www.mehmetbildirici.com. |
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"Gökova SPA Integrated
Caostal and Marine Management Planning Project" SAD and G.A.S.-Der
Project Partnership
 We became partners of the Underwater Research Society
(SAD) for the implementation of their "Gökova SPA Integrated Coastal and
Marine Management Planning Project". As the mutually signed paper of
agreement states, the partnership between our NGOs includes various cooperations; we as local NGO play a role in local logistic
(preparation of meetings, announcements, office and equipment support
etc), in the facilitation of communication, documentation and archive
work. Our chairwoman Bahar Suseven also participates as consultant and
expert and facilitates some of the stakeholder meetings.
Learn more about the project and activities on the
SAD website. |
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 The
association of the "Friends of Akyaka" has organized a summerschool with
international participants in the village of Sirince. The French sponsor for the Turkish side
was the Region PACA, (Region Provence-Alpes-Cotes dAzur), CME/ GEC and PACA
required that the contents for this kind of campus should have to do
with 'Eco Tourism'.
Learn more about the
details and the outcomes via our bilingual handbook "Roadmap
to Eco Tourism in the Village of Şirince", which is ready for
download! For a hardcopy please contact the G.A.S.-Der office. |
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 Our
Stray Animal Workgroup is busily working on
their animal adoption program. We urgently need short term foster
parents and flight aides for adopted animals on their journey to their
new homes.
For our animal transfers to Europe we urgently and constantly need
volunteers:
FOSTER PARENTS
and FLIGHT AIDES! |
 We
had a strange and rare (at least for Akyaka) visitor the
other day:
"A SCALY VISITOR",
read the
story behind it and see the pictures we made |
 The
Akyaka Birding Group Gök-Kus-Agi has lost one of its founding members. Brian
Stoneman lived near Bodrum. For many years he monitored and protected the
wetlands of Tuzla/Bodrum. |
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Dear
all, there is a video from a Turkish website supporting stray
animals......they have recently organized a photo contest with the motto
'streets
are beautiful with animals' just click and watch it! |
It's worth while birding
in Gökova! We went out for a day, as it is migration time
now. Although we did not see our "superstar" the White-Breasted
Kingfisher, we noted down a lot of birds in
the wetlands.
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 Everybody
knows that we are researching and assessing the number of
White Stork and active nests in the village of Akçapınar
since 1986. During these first years due to the village
being quiet, without excessive building, wrong development
and not under the influence of some peoples ill fated
inclinations the number of Storks has been around 70
individuals, decreasing to a mere 15 over the last years.
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 Finally,
after more than a year, there will be a bridge again over
the river in Akyaka. In the end of 2006, the old picturesce
wooden bridge was taken down for security reasons.
Before new years eve 2007 a new brigde was
installed. - it lasted for some 20 minutes :-((
(see pics),
now a new and hopefully more successful
effort was made and this time it should be better,
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second evaluation of the "Vision Akyaka" process
has successfully taken place.
After the first evalution in October 2005 this one took
place on December 8th. Aim of the meeting was to
discuss the process that had been started and initiated by
our association in 2004 and where NGO's, business people and
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We had a series of dog poisonings in Akyaka !In
the night from 12 to 13 October dogs have been
poisoned in a systematic way. We critizize and condemn this
unzivilized behaviour of a minority that complains since
years about the "dog problem". Click here |
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Ecolocical farming starts
now in Akyaka and Gökova. After years of convincing
efforts and meetings a group of about 40 farmers has decided
to "do it". That means for us a recovery in nature amnd for
our tourist guest, better and cleaner food.
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The new exhibition schedule and
catalogue for 2010 in Akyaka
 Starting with an exhibition called Our
Water Heritage Past and Present,
the Nail Çakırhan & Halet Çambel House of Culture and Art, which has opened its
doors to every kind of art, achieved with the years a regional, even
national identity in a very short time. Like every year, it will
continue to be the meeting point for both, artists from Muğla and guest
art lovers from outside, with
a new exhibition every two weeks from
19
May until 31 October.
All art lovers are invited to be
privileged to experience meeting the artists, who are always at the site
of their exhibition, and discuss their works and art, beside being in
Akyaka with its famous touristy values.
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Every wednesday: The weekly
traditional market
in Akyaka, where you can get
nearly anyhting you may want to buy... |
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Breaking news: Cittaslow poll: 811 yes/78 no |
The Municipality of Akyaka and the
Citizen's Town Council have started the application process
to become a member of the International Cittaslow
Confederation. G.A.S.-Der supports this important
development. You can find more about Cittaslow on the
Citizen's Town Council website or download a
brochure in
English here. |
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One of
the most beautiful wetlands of the Muğla Province, the
Yuvarlakçay River is being destroyed!
 Is
the newly constructed Akköprü Dam on the Dalaman River not
enough? Or has it been so badly planned, that now this
beautiful river and its nature has to be eradicated, too???
The
Yuvarlakçay River has been beautiful with its huge Plane
Trees, its lively waters and its rocks. Along it people are
living, striving. Just a s a reminder the Yuvarlakçay River
is home to more than 100 bird species and the globally
protected Fishotter!
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The
Activity Report 2006-2009 of The Friends of Gökova
Akyaka, G.A.S.-Der
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
Besides all the project work we newly introduced we are
developing a project to promote organic farming and facilitate marketing
processes in the Gökova Basin.
Among all these activities we sometimes simply do not find the time to
keep the web updated and to translate all relevant documents. We need
your help and assistance especially for translations especially form
English into Turkish. If you are interested please contact the
association's office. You will be more than welcome! |
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The
www.akyaka.org forum
forum tries to unite everybody who lives, visits or just
likes
Akyaka and it's surroundings. Any comments are welcome
and discussed.
So please,
click here and write down! |
 Step by
Step
Gökova, the walking guide for the surroundings
produced by our association. 18 different walks in three
difficulty degrees and three languages, (Turkish, German and
English) are explained easily to understand even if you are
not a local. Starting at Akyaka Atatürk Square you will be
guided step by step with information where to stop, to find
water a.s.o. Of course this guide is free for everybody. Get
the book from our office or
download
the English pdf-file. |
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Nail Çakırhan has passed away at the age of 98. This is an unreplaceable
loss. Read an obituary
by T. Ünüsan |
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About
Nail
Çakırhan
the famous builder
that influenced
Akyaka's
building style so much and made it famous for its woodwork
and non-concrete buildings |
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Do you
breed mosquitoes? We found out, that the main breeding
ground for these little pests are found in our gardens and
houses.
See, what YOU
can do to protect yourself and us
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You don't know Turkish yet? High time for a
"crash course" then! To learn
the most
important words & phrases in Turkish, click here |
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Photos of
Akyaka otters
and more about otters..
For more
otterphotos
www.otter.org |
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About the
chairperson
of the Association of the Friends of Akyaka
Bahar Suseven |
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For the results of the 13. general assembly
of the Friends of Gökova Akyaka, click here |
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Do you
want to know how the"people
of the
first hour" looked like?
Or would you like to see
the members of the
associations board? |
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A group of
divers
from
ODTÜ University Ankara
was invited by us to
clean our famous river from
many years garbage.
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Every year,
we have our
traditional "Stork
Walk"!
The aim is to raise awareness in the population concerning
the
precious stork population |
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Our special foto page:
Akyaka from
above:
Feel and Look like a bird.Where
was that restaurant we spent that nice evening in ?? |
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The
UNDP/GEF
Small Grants
Pogramme(SGP)
Project
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