Urfa - An End Times Babylon

Urfa - A Babili of the End Times Book Description: "Horse-carts passing with a slow rhythm past the latest model and very luxurious cars, colorful fabric shops next to the stores selling the most popular brands of the time, their urban fellows in robes and turbans appearing next to the women walking around with their traditional clothes and rings in their noses." Young people in blue jeans and shaved heads chatting with men, weddings held in a five-star hotel a short distance away, in spite of the dances held on the streets, houses with dilapidated courtyards, whose gardens take place next to the huge villas... You can understand all this abundance only through fragments, Urfa is more like a story than a novel. "An End Times." Babylon: Urfa, this ancient city is characterized not only by its ethnic plurality (Arabs, Kurds, Turks…), but also by its tribes living in separate worlds, different lifestyles, cultures, etc. shows that it is a Babylon. The lively rhythm of colorful chaos can also be felt in the book. The struggle to get out of poverty and development; political struggles under the pressure of the “agasheikh-state” tripartite dynamic; rich tribal geography; “the title of the city of prophets” and living manifestations of piety; women and the women's movement; the perception of "masculinity" observed in sira nights and pigeon breeding; Cultural icons of Urfa, from Yılmaz Güney to İbrahim Tatlıses; music and especially Halfeti local music and, of course, cuisine with its "glory-treat training"... A. Nevin Yıldız's compilation also includes Oya Açıkalın, Sedat Anar, Suavi Aydın, Ali Fuat Bilkan, A. It includes contributions from Celil K aya, Erdinç Kineşçi, Özge Özdemir and Furkan Dilben, Fuat Şen and Eren Yüksel. (From the Promotional Bulletin)