Gölyazı

In the old days, the word “yazı” meant not only writing, as it does today, but also flatland, plain, open country. So what would the yazı of a göl, a lake, look like? When you reach Gölyazı, the small peninsula reaching into Lake Uluabat, you see the answer with your own eyes: a village stretching out in the middle of the water like a line written by the lake’s own hand… The narrow road joining the village to the shore is like the first letter of that line; the rest flows on in the middle of the water, in its own silence.