GinaAtes
Gina Ates Joined: September 21st 2009
Logged in: October 6th 2009
Logged in: October 6th 2009
Travel Blog Posts
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Hi- sorry its been awhile since I have added new pictures but these latest ones are from our trip to Sile (pronounced Sheelay) on the Black Sea and some pics from Istanbul. Hope you enjoy! Please let me know if the videos and pics look ok as I have noticed some of them have the wrong info on them for some reason.... read more
Ian with his family
Hi- I thought this blog would be a perfect way to keep in touch with everyone. We flew into Istanbul on Tuesday, September 15th at around 11:30 pm. Just a few hours after our plane landed Ians grandmother passed away and he was not able to get to the hospital in time to see her. Her last words were to ask if Ian and his wife had arrived and then she sighed and passed away. Noone slept that night except for me for a couple hours as i did not go to the hospital. The next day we traveled in Istanbul to a place for a prayer service and then left at 5 pm to travel 14 hours to his grandmothers birth village in the middle northern part of Turkey.... read more
This is just an extension of the pictures and videos I took in the villages we visited. The first video is of the funeral. At the end, the lady holding the green cloth is arguing with the Imam. The Imam insisted that the village lady not put the green cloth over the body because it would not distintegrate, while the lady insisted that the green cloth is a part of the za za culture and Ians grandma must be buried with it. In the end, they put the green cloth on her side as a compromise. The second video is of the view from the hill where the burial was. The third and fourth videos are of a house we visited in the neighboring village.... read more
