I grew up in a city where everthing is related with “sea”. The adventure of city starts with ionians as a fisher village, as the time goes by it is prospered. The best times of the city was in Ottoman period. As the war strengthened on the north, the city of Istanbul was no more safe for docking, all traders preferred the docks of Izmir(Smyrna) than richness flourished. I am far far away from my hometown but living with the idea “One day…”

*the picture was taken very long time ago, i think my grandfather was a boy at that time(grandfather born at 1901)