Anne's Daily Encounters

By dutchdelight

In the Golden Hour

After Siesta time, about 6-ish this must be, the two ladies in black in this picture.. quite halfway into this scene, next to the white single car... They sat in the sunlight for a meet-up as that's allowed now again, OK social distancing should be practised, but that's so difficult with close ones.

They must be in mourning over a relative as they wear black clothes. Perhaps they lost their spouse, perhaps a sibling or a child; growing older most women wear black clothes for years as there's always some one to mourn over. 

I didn't want to disturb them with getting closer towards them and my lens wasn't much of a tele, so you should zoom in with your handy to see them better or watch this Large.

The red protruding 2nd floor in a building is that it;s built in Turkish style... the Ottomans occupied Crete (and Greece) for over 400 years of time. It's little more than a century ago that Crete liberated itself from Turkey. And now with reaching soon the 100 years of the Treaty of Lausanne and in 2023 the 100 years since the Treaty of Chevres what declared the Ottoman Empire as finished and released the countries it had occupied from the cruel Pashas etc. and got Yugoslavia realised, and Greece with all its islands reunited (altho'  it took up till 1956 till all the islands what belong to Greece now were handed over)... What I want to tell here now is, that the present president of Turkey, mr. Recep Erdogan, is endlessly speaking of the glory of Turkey and of what belongs to Turkey.... he wants the Ottoman Empire restaured in its full size. Yesterday he made a big show of commemorating the Ottoman Victory of May 29th,1453 with a religious Islamic service in the Agia Sofia mosque, what was ofcourse an Orthodox church, till it's sieged in 1453. 
The news media here in Greece, notice that Turkey's president mr. Recep Erdogan, not just boasts on an almost daily base about the big aspirations and achievements of Turkey, but also humiliates and denies ethnic peoples like the Armenians, the Kurds and the Greeks.

In 1453 on May 29th the Ottomans conquerred the city of Konstantinopoli from the Byzantine Greeks and eversince it's in the hands of the Ottomans. It was Turkey's first president Kemal Ataturk who named the country Turkey and he had far more liberal ideas about Turkey than its present president has. Here a link with little info on Turkey 

It's more an "actual Streetphotography" sorry :-) 

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