Şirince, also known as Kirkintzes, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Selçuk, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 456. It is about 8 kilometres east of the town Selçuk and ab
Sevan Nişanyan is an Armenian writer, fugitive and lexicographer born in Turkey. Author of a number of books, Nişanyan was awarded the Ayşe Nur Zarakolu Liberty Award of the Turkish Human Rights Assoc
Şirince
…foreigners tracked it down in 1881 (using descriptions seen by Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich in a vision). In the 1990s the well-known Istanbul linguist Sevan Nişanyan and his wife Müjde Tönbekici settled in Şirince, which was semi-derelict. They were instrumental in having the village declared a national heritage…