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North Caucasus: Nature. Culture and History Tour by North Travel

October 6, 2021

Dear friends and collegues,

I have been organizing boutique-elite culture-nature tours to Black Sea countries for a long time both as an organizer and as a guide, in cooperation with different travel companies, and then I started to carry out these excursions only through my own company in recent years.

Through my tourism agency named “NORTH TRAVEL”, oriented to the countries and regions which are located at the Northern Black Sea hinterland, I have already been managing travels that are constituting unique and exceptional touristic concept that does not exist almost nowhere, by none of a tourism agency regarding extent and content in Turkey.

In this context, until now, I have taken several hundreds of outstanding, qualified people from quite different environments and provinces, from very different ages and occupational groups to these geographies and regions.

As a result of having been resident in southern Russia for many years, and also having the infrastructure and network to respond to all kinds of groups and requests under all conditions / circumstances, I offer travel packages and trip offers in an extremely unique flexibility and variety, specially beginning from the summer of 2021, especially to the closed travel group candidates.

In this framework, taking into account the characteristics of the global period that is going on in particular; oriented to Georgia and the Russian Federation and Crimea which are Turkey’s closest north-eastern neighbors and also to White Russia (Belarus); I have started organising these trips, tours and I am still continuing, where the whole group itself determines the basic parameters.

In this context, for you, for your respectable corporate and personal circle, I propose tour concepts for the autumn season that we have already entered and the following winter period:

1- Tbilisi  (Georgia)

2- Batumi  (Georgia)

3- Sochi and its surroundings (Russian Federation)

4- Republic of Abkhazia

5- Krasnodar and Adygea Republic (Russian Federation)

6- Azov Sea surroundings (Taganrog + Rostov + Azov) _ Russian Federation

7- Republic of Crimea (long and short tours)

8- Moscow  (Russian Federation)

9- Saint Petersburg  (Russian Federation)

10- Minsk (Belarus – Republic of Belarus).

 

Your sincerely, with Best regards

 

OKAY DEPREM / International Cultural-Tourism Organisator and Guide

Istanbul, TURKEY

www.northtravel.org

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Galician Ottoman-Turkish Martyrdom Cemetery, Ukraine

© Photos and Text by Okay Deprem http://www.northtravel.org/

I must have caught the attention of someone who is obviously a religious officer in the church, where there are not many people because of the repairs, because he wants to approach me and meet me. As a Turkish person, it must have been astonishing to him that I came all the way here and even visited their modest churches, because he wants to have a conversation. I learn that the gentleman whose name is Dimitri is the head priest of this church. A moment later, he honors me and invites me to his room.

During our conversation, he talks about the Turkish-Ottoman martyrdoms in the region while bringing up the subject. Although my mind first went to the sieges of Vienna, or even the Ottoman-Polish or Russian Wars,  I understand that it belongs to the young people of Anatolian and Rumelian origin who died in the wars that are engraved in our memories as the famous “Galician Front” in the history books. While asking ‘How to get there, is it close?..’; “No problem, Let’s get in my car and go!” says…

After being sitting in Dimitri’s small car, almost everyone in town is looking at us along the way until we get to the grave in question. This situation, which reminds me of the absurd-surreal scenes of Fellini films and even makes me think of paranoid thoughts, soon changes when Dimitri announces that he is also the head of the Roman-Catholic Church congregation and is known by everyone in the region.

We enter a muddy and neglected road. First, on the right, we pass the enchanting Catholic cemetery, which resembles a field of flowers. At the end of the long road, we finally come to the cemetery of the Ottoman soldiers on the right. The martyrdom, which looks very modest at first glance and seems to be symbolic, is surrounded by a wall and separated from the surroundings. The only words on the plinth in the middle, surrounded by crescent and star tombstones, are written:

“ In memory of the saintly Turkish soldiers who were martyred on the Galician Front in World War I between 1916 and 1917… May their souls rest in peace!..”

The monument in question was built in 2006 with the initiative and assistance of the Turkish Embassy in Kiev. Finally, Dimitri states that although not as large as this one, there are more Ottoman tombs in the surrounding villages and towns.

While I am spending my last hours in Rohatin, we are taking a little city tour by car. Having been under Polish and Austro-Hungarian rule for many years, the town is very different from a typical Slavic city. It consists of matte but colorful houses with several floors, quite plain and straight facades, without courtyards. With the intention of Hürrem Sultan, I am returning from this short visit, such as “What is your intention, what a destiny”, full of striking impressions and having gained a friend.

“This article was published in the monthly journal ‘Hayat Dergi’.”

Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus in 2014

Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus region in 2014 Ethno-linguistic groups in the Caucasus region in 2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus#/media/File:Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg

Language families indigenous to the Caucasus

The medieval Georgian village of Shatili

Ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region

The village of Tindi, in Dagestan, in the late 1890s

North Caucasian peoples (from left to right): OssetiansCircassiansKabardians, and a Chechen

Caucasians who speak languages which have long been indigenous to the region are generally classified into three groups: Kartvelian peoplesNortheast Caucasian peoples and Northwest Caucasian peoples.

Kartvelian languages

Northeast Caucasian languages

Northwest Caucasian languages

October 6, 2021

Dear friends and collegues,

I have been organizing boutique-elite culture-nature tours to Black Sea countries for a long time both as an organizer and as a guide, in cooperation with different travel companies, and then I started to carry out these excursions only through my own company in recent years.

Through my tourism agency named “NORTH TRAVEL”, oriented to the countries and regions which are located at the Northern Black Sea hinterland, I have already been managing travels that are constituting unique and exceptional touristic concept that does not exist almost nowhere, by none of a tourism agency regarding extent and content in Turkey.

In this context, until now, I have taken several hundreds of outstanding, qualified people from quite different environments and provinces, from very different ages and occupational groups to these geographies and regions.

As a result of having been resident in southern Russia for many years, and also having the infrastructure and network to respond to all kinds of groups and requests under all conditions / circumstances, I offer travel packages and trip offers in an extremely unique flexibility and variety, specially beginning from the summer of 2021, especially to the closed travel group candidates.

In this framework, taking into account the characteristics of the global period that is going on in particular; oriented to Georgia and the Russian Federation and Crimea which are Turkey’s closest north-eastern neighbors and also to White Russia (Belarus); I have started organising these trips, tours and I am still continuing, where the whole group itself determines the basic parameters.

In this context, for you, for your respectable corporate and personal circle, I propose tour concepts for the autumn season that we have already entered and the following winter period:

1- Tbilisi  (Georgia)

2- Batumi  (Georgia)

3- Sochi and its surroundings (Russian Federation)

4- Republic of Abkhazia

5- Krasnodar and Adygea Republic (Russian Federation)

6- Azov Sea surroundings (Taganrog + Rostov + Azov) _ Russian Federation

7- Republic of Crimea (long and short tours)

8- Moscow  (Russian Federation)

9- Saint Petersburg  (Russian Federation)

10- Minsk (Belarus – Republic of Belarus).

 

Your sincerely, with Best regards

 

OKAY DEPREM / International Cultural-Tourism Organisator and Guide

Istanbul, TURKEY

www.northtravel.org

Instagram: northtravel_2018

https://www.facebook.com/groups/863719964375516

https://booksonturkey.com/?s=Okay+deprem

Mobile: +90 532 632 35 06.

What’s App: +7 926 633 02 25

Turkish Tea Garden. Akçay. April 1975

© Copyright photo by Levent Ağaoğlu

Break in the tea garden in Akcay. Tea is the most popular hot drink of the Turks. Fashion style long hair. Who knows where, to whom the deep gaze is locked and lost. Akcay Saturday, April 26, 1975

Akçay’da çay bahçesinde mola. Çay, Türklerin en popüler sıcak içeceği. Zamane stili uzun saçlar. Derin bakışlar kimbilir nerelere, kimlere kilitlenmiş, dalıp gitmiş. Akçay 26 Nisan 1975 Cumartesi

Saraçhane Pass. Fatih, Istanbul. 21 December 1974

Saraçhane Pass. Fatih, Istanbul. 21 December 1974

© Copyright photo by Levent Ağaoğlu

People around Fatih Mosque. 1974.1975

  • Around Fatih Mosque 21 December 1974
  • Texas or should I say Tommiks? Around Fatih Mosque 21 December 1974
  • Fatih Mosque October 1975
  • Around Fatih Mosque 21 December 1974
  • Fatih Mosque October 11, 1975
  • Fatih Mosque Saturday, December 21, 1974

© Copyright photo by Levent Ağaoğlu

Back Streets of Fatih, Istanbul. 1975

A Street in Fatih December 21, 1974

Back Streets of Kıztaşı Fatih 21 December 1974

 

© Copyright photo by Levent Ağaoğlu

Fatih Park, Itfaiye. Istanbul, 1975

Fatih Park October 11, 1975

© Copyright photo by Levent Ağaoğlu

Garden of the Süleymaniye Mosque Complex. Fatih. Istanbul.1975

From the Garden of the Süleymaniye Mosque Complex, 11 October 1975

© Copyright photo by Levent Ağaoğlu

Isa Bey Mosque Selcuk Izmir Friday, 1975

Isa Bey Mosque Selcuk Izmir Friday, April 24, 1975

© Copyright photo by Levent Ağaoğlu

In memory of Aydınoğlu İsa Bey. The stones are surrounded by revitalized plants. Always the same meticulous craftsmanship and decorations. Always the same longing. To adorn lands and worlds. Isa Bey Mosque Selcuk Izmir Friday, April 24, 1975

Aydınoğlu İsa Bey’in anısına. Taşlar canlanmış bitkilerle sarılmış. Hep aynı özenli işçilik ve bezemeler. Hep aynı özlem. Diyarları, dünyaları bezemek. İsa Bey Camii Selçuk İzmir 24 Nisan 1975 Cuma

Aydınoğlu İsa Bey had it added stone by stone. Bless him. Stones come to life with his glory.  Isa Bey Mosque Selcuk Izmir Friday, April 24, 1975

Taş taş üstüne ekletmiş Aydınoğlu İsa Bey. Rahmetler ola. Taşlar can bulmuş şanınla. Isa Bey Camii Selçuk İzmir. 24 Nisan 1975, Cuma.