21. Followup on Yalova

I have been blessed by God.  I mentioned in a previous post that I had lost all contact with my friends in Yalova.  That has been corrected with a stroke of luck. I laughed with glee at renewing contact with some precious old friends.  It has been forty three years since I have seen them and it is pleasing to me that they are still my friends and that they still consider me their friend.

Clockwise are Selma, Belma, Süheyla, and Layla with their Mom

It also tells me that Yalova was not destroyed as I thought.  Part of the original still exists in the people that lived and still live there. Here are five of the people that I remember.  Their mother, Fahriye, is the person I talked about in my last post.

The four sisters going clockwise surrounding Fahriye are Selma, Belma, Süheyla, and Layla.  

FÜZEN ART Gallery

Selma and Süheyla

 

Layla passed on in 2004 and her husband Nurdogan in 1990.

They had two children.
The eldest, Volkan, has two children, one is a student at the university and the second is in high school.  They live in Istanbul where he has an art gallery named The Füzen Art Gallery.
 Layla's daughter Elvan has one son studying at the Unıversity of Nottingham in England. 

Süheyla still lives in Yalova.  Her Husband died in 1990.  She has two sons that are married

Selma has 2 sons and two grandchildren.  She and her husband live in the resort city of Marmaris in southern Turkey bordering on the Mediterranean sea.  They spend the winter living in Yalova.  One son lives in Germany with his family and the other in Istanbul.

Belma also lives in the city of Marmaris.


 I find it interesting how some things remain in our minds.  The friends we have not seen for 43 years have not aged. We still think of them as they were, not as Grandparents with a few well earned wrinkles.

 Selma and Granddaughter