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A Turkish
poet, Hüsamettin Koçan, says;
"Anatolia
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.........
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