Expropriation works almost finished for historic theater İZMİR – DHA

A Roman theater, stuck in between shanty towns in the Aegean province of İzmir’s Kadifekale, is being expropriated for nearly 12 million Turkish liras with plans to unearth its fascinating 16,000-person capacity.

It is believed that the theater, where the second century Christian bishop of İzmir St. Polycarp was killed, would be a great center for the world of Christianity.

İzmir, known as Smyrna in ancient times, has hosted various civilizations in its 8,500-year-old history. The province’s municipality has so far paid 11.889 million liras for expropriation works to resurface the ancient Roman Theater.

The decision to expropriate has been made by the municipality over 164 parcels on an area of 12,974 square meters. So far, the municipality has purchased the land title over an area of 11,894 square meters.

Archaeological works to unearth the theater are being carried out within a protocol between the municipality and the Culture and Tourism Ministry. Works have been put on hold for some time but will commence again soon.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/expropriation-works-almost-finished-for-historic-theater-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=108853&NewsCatID=375

Turkey’s first ‘slow food’ neighborhood

 

The Germiyan neighborhood in the western province of İzmir’s Çeşme district has been launched as Turkey’s first “slow food” neighborhood by the Slow Food movement, which brings small producers and natural food into forefront against industrial production. 

The protocol was signed on May 15 by the representatives of Slow Food Turkey and Slow Food Germiyan.
Çeşme District Governor Mustafa Erkayıran said people were reacting against the estrangement caused by industrialization and wanted to return to more traditional ways of doing things.

“We try to realize the production of 100-200 years ago in villages. Germiyan will be the first place for this trial,” Erkayıran added.

Nedim Atilla, a founding member of Slow Food Turkey, said Germiyan would “go down in history” as Turkey’s first slow food neighborhood.

“Germiyan is an urban neighborhood, but we call it village symbolically. With this protocol, Germiyan will protect its values and clean products will be produced here. Vegetables will not be grown here out of their natural season. Germiyan’s bread and Kopanisti cheese will survive as the region’s important brands.

Products unique to Germiyan will be sold here for one year with a logo featuring a snail with an olive branch in its mouth.

The spokesperson of Slow Food Germiyan, Engin Önen, said the movement was becoming more popular in Turkey.

“These products do not contain chemical products, they are clean. They will reach consumers via this movement. The people of Germiyan have worked for two years to realize this. Now with our 27 members, we will start producing,” Önen added.

Exhibition sheds light on Ancient City of Neikaia in western museum

İZMİR - Doğan News Agency

Pieces of marble and glass, lamps, bronze coins and similar objects unearthed during the excavations at İzmir’s ancient city of Neikaia are being displayed at the Ödemiş Museum.

The artifacts unearthed during the archaeological excavations at the ancient city of Neikaia have been put on display at an exhibition at the Ödemiş Museum. DHA Photo

A range of historical artifacts such as medical material, coins and ceramics found in the Neikaia ancient city in the Ödemiş province of İzmir are being exhibited at the Ödemiş Museum.

There have been many historical artifacts found at the site of the 2,300 year-old ancient city of Neikaia such as medical materials, coins, architectural and ceramic material. The ancient city is 10 kilometers away from Ödemiş, between the Türkonü and Kurucuova villages. The ancient city has an importance of being a health center of the time and also being connected to the Ephesus with the name Nikopolis in the sixth century B.C. The findings could not be promoted in the best way before, due to the fact that the city was in a hilly area. Prof. Dr. Veli Sevin, an ancient era historian and archeologist, has written a 96-page book about the ancient city, entitled “Naikaia, a Forgotten Ancient City.” The exhibition being held at the Ödemiş Museum aims to make the city, which started to be known about through the book, known all around the country.

Artifacts at exhibit

The exhibition is displaying three pieces of marble, nine glass pieces, four kerosene lamps made from baked soil and 16 bowls made from the soil, 1 mirror, a bronze bone medical material and a few bronze coins.

Among the guests attending the opening of the exhibition late last week were archeology department academic Prof. Dr. Serap Yaylalı, the manager of the Ödemiş Yıldız Town Records Museum Prof. Dr. Engin Berber, the manager of the Ödemiş Museum Sevda Çetin, editorial office manager of the district Mahmut Yeniay, the Director of Education of the district Cevdet Ünlü, art historian Prof. Dr. Necla Sevin, Food and Agriculture District Manager of Ödemiş İbrahim Altıntaş and Ödemiş Culture and Social Projects Manager Ufuk Kızıler.

The manager of the Ödemiş Museum Sevda Çetin said that they had started the themed exhibitions with the Neikaia Ancient City and that these would continue in order to introduce the other beauties of the city.

The art historian Prof. Dr. Necla Sevin emphasized the importance of Neikaia in history and added, “One of the most important specialties of Neikaia is that it was a health center at that time. There is much evidence of this in the findings. Ancient documents are talking about this area. The richest mercury sources of the world are in this area. These mine pits have been used since the ancient times. The importance of these mines is that they have been used in varied areas such as medicine. At the ancient era, people imported medicine and cosmetics to the world, via the Ephesus port. Another specialty of the city is that they had minted coins.”

June/24/2013

EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE 2020 – Izmir, la favorite ?

La ville d'Izmir est l'une des prétendantes les plus sérieuses pour accueillir l'exposition universelle de 2020. Un événement colossal qui faire de la ville égéenne une référence européenne en matière de santé.

L'exposition universelle (EXPO) de 2020 se tiendra-t-elle à Izmir, ville balnéaire de l'ouest de la Turquie située au bord de la mer Egée ? Les membres du comité d'organisation en sont persuadés. "Je crois aux statistiques. Jusqu'à présent, toutes les villes qui avaient vu leur candidature refusée et qui se sont à nouveau présentées la fois suivante ont obtenu l'organisation de l'exposition universelle", confie Denis Gözükızıl, chargé de la communication du projet.

Le logo de la candidature d'Izmir

Il y a cinq ans la troisième ville la plus importante de Turquie, avec quatre millions d'habitants, n'avait pas réussi à convaincre le jury composé des 163 États membres du BIE (Bureau international des expositions) qui lui avait préféré la ville de Milan, où se tiendra l'Expo de 2015. Pour obtenir l'organisation de l'édition 2020, Izmir devra se démarquer de ses trois concurrentes : Dubaï (Emirats arabes unis), Sao Paulo (Brésil) et Ekaterinburg (Russie). La ville thaïlandaise de Ayutthaya , présente sur la ligne de départ, a quant à elle renoncé.

Le BIE livrera son verdict au mois de novembre prochain. En attendant, tout le monde à Izmir se prépare à accueillir un événement majeur : 35 millions de visiteurs, dont une moitié d'étrangers, sont attendus pendant les six mois que durera l'exposition. Le terrain alloué pour l'occasion s'étend sur 273 hectares, soit l'équivalent de 300 terrains de football. Il reviendra à l'architecte Zaha Hadid, première femme à avoir décroché en 2004 le prix Pritzker (sorte de prix Nobel d'architecture), d'y construire un monument d'importance, comme Gustave Eiffel l'avait fait au moment de l'Expo de 1886. Le gouvernement turc enfin prévoit d'investir 50 milliards de dollars (environ 38 milliards d'euros) pour l'événement. Une somme astronomique propre à susciter quelques interrogations. "On s'attend à ce que chacun des 35 millions de visiteurs dépense en moyenne 200 dollars. Faites le calcul", lance Serpil Alpman, la représentante pour le ministère des Affaires étrangères au sein du comité de direction d'Expo 2020. Soit à peu près 7 milliards de dollars. Le fossé qui sépare l'investissent réalisé et l'argent récolté avait déjà été souligné au moment de l'exposition universelle de Shanghai de 2010, où les quelques 8,7 milliards d'euros de recettes enregistrées n'avaient pas suffi à couvrir les 43,5 milliards d'euros de dépenses.

Izmir, la ville européenne de la santé

Au delà de la question financière, le gouverneur d'Izmir Mustafa Toprak compte sur l'exposition universelle pour sortir sa ville de l'ombre d'Istanbul et Ankara au rayon des villes célèbres de Turquie. Et surtout pour donner à la cité égéenne, réputée entre autres pour ses eaux thermales, une identité fortement marquée sur la santé, puisque c'est le thème qui a été choisi par le comité de direction de l'Expo 2020. "Pour être couronnée de succès, une Expo doit avoir un thème auquel chacun, participants et visiteurs, puisse identifier et accorder sa priorité pour le monde entier", a-t-il déclaré aux journalistes venus le rencontrer 6 juin dernier. Et de conclure : "Avec l'Expo, le gagnant ne sera pas seulement la ville d'Izmir ou même la Turquie, mais bien l'humanité toute entière."

Jonathan Grimmer (http:/www.lepetitjournal.com/istanbul/) mardi 11 juin 2013

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Hagia Haralambos Church restored into arts center

İZMİR - Anatolia News Agency

The church has been restored and now serves as a culture-arts center. AA photo

The Hagia Haralambos Church, which had been neglected in İzmir’s town of Çeşme for many years, has recently been restored and reopened as a cultural center.

The church, which was built in 1832 as a Greek Orthodox place of worship, was restored by a Çeşme Municipality initiative with the support of the Province Special Directorate.

The historic structure was renovated at a cost of 2 million Turkish Liras and transformed into an important place in the town’s artistic life.

Çeşme Mayor Faik Tütüncüoğlu said that the nearly ruined structure drew great interest after its reopening as a culture and arts center, and that applications for 2013 exhibitions were almost full.

Duvar yazılarındaki saklı tarih

İzmir'deki Agora kazılarında bulunan duvar yazıları tarihe ışık tutuyor.28 Mart 2013 Perşembe 12:24

İzmir'deki Agora kazılarında bulunan duvar yazıları ve tasvirler Roma dönemindeki günlük hayata ışık tutuyor.
Kazı Heyeti Başkanı Yrd. Doç. Dr. Akın Ersoy, "Duvar yazılarında küfürden tutun da sevgi sözcüklerine, aşk sözlerine kadar, bulmacalara kadar, gemi tasvirlerine, şiddeti ifade eden gladyatörlere kadar pek çok sözcük var" dedi.
Duvar yazısı galerisi, restorasyon çalışmalarının ardından ziyarete açılacak.
İzmir'deki bu alan dünyanın kent merkezindeki en büyük antik dönem agorası... İzmir Agorası'nda sürdürülen kazı çalışmalarıyla kentin tarihi zenginliği gün yüzüne çıkıyor.
"DÜNYADA BU ZENGİNLİKTE BAŞKA BİR DUVAR YAZISI BULGUSU YOK"
Çalışmalarla ilgili bilgi veren Kazı Heyeti Başkanı Yrd. Doç. Dr. Akın Ersoy, "Smyrna Agorasının en önemli ve en popüler arkeolojik bulgusu duvar yazılarıdır. Dünyada başka bu zenginlikte ve bu çeşitlikte bir duvar yazı bulgusu söz konusu değil" diye konuştu.
GÜNÜMÜZDEKİ DUVAR YAZILARIYLA İLGİNÇ BENZERLİK
Duvar yazıları, Roma dönemindeki günlük hayata ilişkin pek çok ipucu veriyor.
Yrd. Doç. Dr. Akın Ersoy, bu konuda şunları söyledi:
"Küfürden tutun da sevgi sözcüklerine, aşk sözlerine kadar, bulmacalara kadar, gemi tasvirlerine, şiddeti ifade eden gladyatörlere kadar pek çok sözcük var. Hem antik çağın günlük yaşamını, hem Smyrna'nın günlük yaşamından bize inanılmaz kesitler veriyor."
İZMİR'İ ZİRVEYE TAŞIYOR
Bu tarihi zenginlik, İzmir'i kültür turizminde zirveye taşıyor.
İzmir İl Kültür ve Turizm Müdürü Abdülaziz Ediz, "İzmir'e 2012 yılı içerisinde gelen turist sayısı 1 milyon 380 bin ancak İzmir'deki müzeleri ziyaret eden turist sayısı 3 milyon. Bu İzmir'deki kültürel mirasın ne kadar çok ilgi çektiğinin net göstergesi" dedi.
Çalışmalar tamamlandığında duvar yazılarının yer aldığı galeri ziyarete açılacak.

IZMIR ce soir: film "la fille de Monaco"

"La fille de Monaco"

Thématique	Cinéma
Date de debut	2013.02.20 18h30
Date de fin	2013.02.20
Intro	L'institut français d'Izmir diffuse mercredi le film "La fille de Monaco".
Description	Sorti en 2008, cette comédie dramatique est réalisée par Anne Fontaine et met en scène Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem et Louise Bourgoin. L'entrée est libre, le film est en français, sous-titré en Anglais et dure 1h 35min.
Contact	0.232.466.00.13
Adresse	Cumhuriyet Bulvari No: 152, Alsancak - Izmir
Lien	http://ifturquie.org/fr/index.php/events/view/1043
Posté par	MA

IZMIR: Mask Museum aims to keep famous faces alive

İZMİR - Anatolia News AgencyTurkey’s first mask museum in İzmir takes molds of famous people’s faces and makes masks of them. The museum wants to enrich its collection by making the masks of many other renowned people and giving them life

The Mask Museum’s workshop instructor Eylel Sürer says it itakes eight to 10 minutes to take the mould of a face and it turns into a mask in 15-20 minutes. She also calls for famous figures to help for their life mask collection , saying, ‘If the artists do not want to come to İzmir, we can go to them.’ AA photos

The İzmir Mask Museum, Turkey’s first mask museum opened by the Konak Municipality, attempts to immortalize the faces of famous figures in masks while they are still alive.

Besides various masks made by artists in different categories, the museum also displays “death masks,” which have been made taking the face molds of people after their death. Among these faces are famous poet Tevfik Fikret and writer Aziz Nesin.

The museum has also developed its “life masks” project following a bitter experience at the workshop working to enrich the number in the “death masks” collection.

İzmir Mask Museum Workshop instructor Eylem Sürer said the previous goal of the workshop was to create masks of famous figures’ faces in order to immortalize them.

She said the same method was used around the world to create masks of dead people, adding that it was not easy to approach the families of dead people.

Sürer said that to widen the death mask collection, they attempted to take a mold of renowned journalist Mehmet Ali Birand, who recently died. “As the museum, we want to immortalize dead people by taking a mold of their face. The day after Birand died, we asked permission from his family, but the grieving family did not give permission. Of course we should understand them. After having this experience, we thought that it would be easier to take molds of living people’s faces. Lots of people may want it. This is why we believe that we won’t have a problem. Our goal is to reach famous people. Then we will make a first by making the collection of “life masks” in our museum.”

She said it was very easy to take the mold of a face. “It takes eight to 10 minutes and it turns into a mask in 15-20 minutes.”

‘Life mask collection’

Sürer said that in the “life mask” collection, they first asked to make masks of all living Yeşilçam (Turkey’s Hollywood) stars.

“We also want to have the mask of renowned names of the music, literary and art worlds. I want to make the mask of the sultan of Turkish cinema, Türkan Şoray, as well as comedian Levent Kırca and musician Erkin Koray. Also, we should take the mold of writer Yaşar Kemal’s face while he is alive. If the artists do not want to come to İzmir, we can go to them.”

February/18/2013 HÜRRIYET DAILY NEWS

"Yağmur Çocuklar"dan anlamlı tango..

İzmir güzel bir etkinliğe ev sahipliği yaptı.

27 Ocak 2013 Pazar 12:02

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İLGİLİ VİDEOLAR

• "Yağmur Çocuklar"dan anlamlı tango..Play

İzmir'de otistik çocukların katılımıyla düzenlenen sanat gecesi büyük beğeni topladı.

Gösteriden elde edilen gelir yine otistik çocukların eğitim ve tedavisinde kullanılacak.

Yağmur çocuklar, yani doğuştan otizm hastası çocuklar, ama sosyal hayata azimle tutunuyorlar
"Yağmur Çocuklar" etkinliğinin ilki olan "Beceri Şöleni", Ahmed Adnan Saygun Sanat Merkezi'nde yapıldı.

Merkezi İzmir’de bulunan Kadın Meclis Üyeleri Derneği'nin, otistik çocukların desteklenmesi amacıyla düzenlediği gösteriye ilgi büyüktü.

Otistik çocuklarla, gönüllü kadınlar tango yaptı.

Ünlü perküsyon ustası Okay Temiz'in de sahne aldığı gecede otistik çocuklar da çaldı.

Düzenlenen etkinlikte söz alan KAMED Başkanı Ayşe Akın, "Projemiz kapsamında otizme dikkatleri çekmek, otistik çocuklarımızın becerilerini ortaya koymak kadar gönüllülerle birlikte gerçekleştirecek konser, sergi, defile ve bir çok etkinliklerimizle tüm ülkeye sesimizi duyurmak istiyoruz." dedi

TRT

après la boue, la foudre, les éléments sont contre Turkish airlines !

Un avion de Turkish Airlines frappé par la foudre

Malgré l’atteinte par la foudre du moteur droit de l’avion, les pilotes sont parvenus avec succès à faire atterrir l’appareil.

L’avion effectuant le vol Istanbul-Izmir a vu son moteur droit être arrêté après avoir été frappé par la foudre.

Les pilotes sont malgré tout, parvenus avec succès à faire atterrir l’avion transportant 112 passagers à l’aéroport d’Izmir, grâce à l’unique moteur qui continuait de fonctionner.

Selon les informations délivrées par la Direction des espaces aériens publics, le vol TK 2348 a été frappé par la foudre au niveau de son moteur droit.

Les pilotes ayant avertis la tour de contrôle, des précautions ont été prises pour faire atterrir l’avion dans l’aéroport d’Izmir. Ce qui a été réalisé dans la nuit à 00h05 (heure locale).

Date de l'information : 25 Janvier 2013 08:51
Mise à jour à : 25 Janvier 2013 12:01

Tiyatronun Kalbi İzmir'de Atıyor

Uluslararası İzmir Tiyatro Festivali başladı.

17 yıldır Ankara'da yapılan tiyatro festivali artık İzmir'de seyirciyle kucaklaşıyor.

Festivalin açılış töreni, Devlet Tiyatrosu Konak Sahnesi'nde yapıldı.
Törende tiyatro sanatçıları Turgay Tanülkü'ye onur, Bozkurt Kuruç'a ise emek ödülü verildi.
Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı Ertuğrul Günay törende, İzmir'de geçen yıl da sinema festivalinin başladığını hatırlattı.
Günay, “Homer'in kentinde tiyatro festivalinin olmaması gerçekten kabul edilebilir bir şey değildi. Bu akşam bu eksikliği gidermiş oluyoruz. İzmir daha nice güzellikleri inşallah hep birlikte yaşayacak" dedi.
Toplumsal Araştırmalar Kültür ve Sanat İçin Vakfı'nca düzenlenen 1'inci İzmir Tiyatro Festivali"nde 27 oyun izleyiciyle buluşacak.
Şehir tiyatrolarından üniversite topluluklarına, özel tiyatrolardan, amatör topluluklara kadar tiyatronun tüm renklerini bir araya getirmeyi amaçlayan festivalde 29 topluluk sahne alacak.
10 gün sürecek festivalde, tiyatro oyunları çeşitli semtlerde bulunan 7 merkezde sahnelenecek.

Festival de littérature en Turquie cet automne

Festival de littérature

Thématique
Date de debut	2012.10.01
Date de fin	2012.10.07
Intro	Le festival ITEF se tiendra à Istanbul du 1er au 4 octobre et du 4 au 7 octobre à Ankara, Izmir et Hatay.
Description	Dédicaces,conférences, lectures... en présence de plus de 60 auteurs de 22 pays différents. Pour plus d'informations et le détail du programme, rendez-vous sur le site internet du festival.
Contact	info@itef.com.tr
Adresse
Lien	http://www.itef.com.tr/en/index
Posté par	margaux