Cide & Gideros Bay

We all know Hababam Sınıfı, ‘The Chaos Class’; but do you know where the pen that wrote all that laughter was born? Rıfat Ilgaz came into the world in 1911 on this stretch of the Black Sea coast, in Cide. That pen, which wrote of the uproar in school corridors and of poverty and solidarity, had first listened to the waves of this shore… And that his surname carries the name of a nearby mountain, Ilgaz, is surely no coincidence.