Bodrum Holidays in Turkey
18/05/2010 in Local
Today when Bodrum is one of Turkey’s prime holiday hotspots, it’s hard to believe that it was once a place to which those who had fallen foul of the authorities were exiled. Amongst those exiles was a man called Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, who had been born into a well-to-do İstanbul family, the same family, in fact, that produced the artist Fahrelnissa Zeid, whose vibrant abstracts are on display in the İstanbul Modern. But Cevat had a hot temper, and in circumstances that will probably never be known for sure he shot his father dead in 1914. Read the rest of this entry →