Do they buy it to live here or as a second home or a vacation home?
Mostly as a second home. If you look ten years down the line for example, what do you want to see throughout the whole village? How do you imagine it unrolling? Economic development and tourism are uncontrollable monsters. They are dragons. Once they are awakened you cannot keep them on a leash. I think they will devour this village. That’s pretty apocalyptic. Is the village better today than it was 15 years ago? Economically, absolutely! Socially, I’m not so sure about that. Politically, I’m not so sure about that either. There is serious money running through the village now. And the villagers have become very well-off. They tend to invest in Seljuq rather than here. The younger generation refuses to live in this village. They want to move on to the town. What drives the Şirince economy? Tourism and agriculture. Although agriculture is dying. If you wished the best for this village in ten years, what must happen? I don’t know the answer to that. Actually, my dream for the last two or
