Eastern Europe Memories

18/11/2023

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MACEDONIA

Bitpazar. Turkish district.
Köfte long shape. British man eating with his family called it as sausage.
Mosques, Hammams.
I got many photos there.
Met with Samka Ibrahimovski MP and leader of the Roman Party. He also had bisited Istanbul and Chairman of Tetovo Football Club. He had been travelling to Serbia frequently. I also met with who had serves as Minister of Culture in the past.
Holiday Inn Hotel just near the stone bridge.
Ramstore was being constructed there.
Macedonians use many turkish words whilw talking to each other

Hamamönü district where my mother has been born.

Tetovo tailor. We spoke in Turkish.
Very mountainous
…… Mountain

KOSOVO
2014

Jakova city
Ferhat
Jakova Prizren İpek
Presentation at the hotel
Later Sıvaper was used for school renovation which became Montesori School in Tirana.
I had a breakfast at Parents very old wooden home in Jakovo. 4 stories. Same my mother’s style of behaviour.
Jakove was where my grandfather was born.

ROMANIA

2003
Saddam
Bucharest. Braşov. Alba Ilıu. Temeşvar. Sigişvali
Ömer Zeytinoğlu Turkish Ambassador
Had a dinner eith Embassador at Tırkish Embassy.
City of Drakula town
Romanian people were very quet, lovely and positive with the life. Walked around doentoen Bucharest.
Kuzine soba
There were holes on the roads
Very green forests
Alba Ilıu around Hungary style
Turkish truck drivers
Bucharest Alba Ilıu by car 6 hours near the forests and rivers.
Carpat mountains
Bulgaria Romania Hungary way direct transportation to Europe
Tanneries there also getting diminished in Romania.

HUNGARY

Budapest. Pecs.
Ms Çiğdem Çınar. Mr Erdinç Çınar and son and daughter. Stayed at the Hotel at downtown Budapest near the Danube River. Visited historical hammam which has been turned into Museum. Visited King’s Palace which had a very panoramic view on the edge of Danube.

Taken photoes at the Palace with Gülbaba cemetery.
However astonisshed with the existence of 5 star international hotel inside the palace.
Visited few tanneries existing in Hungary.
Though Hungary had been important leather producing center in the past.
Visited Pecs city as well and walked around downtown at the city square. There was a church at city centre converted from a mosque.

There was a historical bridge at Budapest and I had night tour in Danube by touring ship.

SLOVAKIA

Entered from the east border with Hungary. It was on the mountains. We visited at the big tannery and they became our customer later on.

Liptovsky Mikulas https://tr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liptovský_Mikuláš was on the mountains. We visited at the big tannery and they became our customer later on. We have visited 3 more tanneries there. The city Liptovsky Mikulas was a skiing center for winter sports and the tannery there was built there for oxhide sources with waste water treTment facility. And also countryside homes were vert big and had very identical structure same model at mountanious areas. I landed at Budapest and We moved from Budapest from Bratislava to Liptovsky Mikulas. We ate gamy (geymii) at Budapest Restaurant.
We moved later on to Budapest from Bratislava.

POLAND
Varsaw
Visited for leather chemicals business and I have initiated the sales to Poland. Walked atound downtown Warsaw and saw old houses that have been rebuilt. Polish were very elegant people. When I asked questions on leather industry my contact told me that Turks know much more than us as you are more organized knowledge and production on leather business.

I saw bazaars on city streets.