Şirince

What is the surest shortcut to protecting a village from the evil eye? According to the tales, the village’s former inhabitants came up with a rather curious answer: calling their village ugly… Legend has it that those who left Ephesus and took refuge in these hills named their home “Çirkince”, from çirkin, ugly, so that no one would be tempted to come and settle. Whether there is a cleverer way to hide beauty, we can’t say; but it certainly worked for a long time. After all, no one would go out of their way out of curiosity for an ugly village…