FRANCE ANNECY TURKISH WEEKS                     

  HARMANFOLK : Istanbul Turkiye HARMANFOLK organisation would like seeing your dance group in Iskenderun / Arsuz International folk festival, which will be held 15-20 August in 2007. We are willing to organise, expand this International folklore festival every year and would like to see different cultures from all over the World. ARSUZ  is a city at the south of Turkey near the Mediterranean sea. The population is about 140 tousand. Iskenderun has wonderful seaside and excellend beaches. The temparature is around 45 C in the summer. It is also one of the best touristic and historical city.

  CONDITIONS :  Accommodation at the camping rooms including 3-4 beds and toilet, shower in the room. We can accept max 44 people including two bus drivers. Group’s dancer ages must be older than 16 years old. All groups will performance   only  every night min 5 max 20 minute . If Group travel by plane and arrive to Istanbul airport, a bus will be hire for all ground transportation’s and group will pay this cost.

The participant gro u p s m u s t pay their own tra v el e x pen s e s from their Co u ntry to T u rkey and ret u rn. If Group i s coming by b u s , Fe s ti v al M u nicipality organi s ation committee will give to the groups Gasoline from Municipality petrol station in dose KM distance from Turkish border –ARSUZ  festival city -Turkish border before the end of the festival ,the rest of sum too.

In all case we would like to remind you that, this is not legal invitation. After having all groups necessary promotion materials (video cassette or CD, group photos and short description) till the end of this year, festival organisation selection committee will choose the participation groups, after we will send to the groups their Official Invitations. We will just consider proposals from the groups that send us the materials to the following address; If you are intent to stay more days in Turkey, you must let us know before your coming here than according your desire we can make some organisations.  

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PARICIPATED GROUPS IN 2005 :  GEORGIA FOLK DANCE - RUSIA MOSCOW MODERN DANCE - YAKUTIA FOLK DANCE- SIRBIA FOLK DANCE

PARICIPATED GROUPS IN 2006 : EKVADOR FOLK DANCE - GEORGIA FOLK DANCE -LITHUANIA FOLK DANCE - CZECH FOLK DANCE

  ***  Iskenderun, formerly Alexandretta, city in southern Turkey, located in Hatay Province, near Antakya. Iskenderun is situated at the head of the Gulf of Iskenderun (Gulf of Alexandretta), an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, and is one of Turkey's principal Mediterranean seaports. The city is a trade center for a region producing grains, tobacco, and fruits; it is also home to a steel plant and is the terminus of an oil pipeline. A resort center, Iskenderun is linked by road, rail, and air to other Turkish cities. The city lies near the site of Alexandria ad Issum, founded by Alexander the Great in 333 BC to commemorate his victory over the Persians. Traditionally, Iskenderun was an outlet for trade between Persia and India, and the chief port for the Ottoman province of Halab (Aleppo) and other points in northern Syria. The city was under Turkish rule for six centuries. After World War I (1914-1918) it was included in French-mandated Syria and then served as the capital of the autonomous sanjak (administrative district) of Alexandretta in 1937 and 1938. The city grew substantially after it returned to Turkish administration in 1939.

  **** Arsuz, being a coast village located at the county İskenderun of the Southern Mediterranean city Hatay is a remarkable tourism resort drawing attention with its environs, natural beauty and historical artifacts. Accessible via the 32 km long coast road through Iskenderun, it has a distance of 90 km’s to Antakya that is famous with the St. Peters Cathedral and the ancient city Daphne (Harbiye) and 166 km’s to the Adana Airport. Arsuz and its environs form one of our secret natural treasures with its coast line that offers Turkey’s longest summer season of 8 months, the mountains and hills covered with the rich Mediterranean flora, valleys and plateaus between the sea and the mountains and the rich water resources  

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Tel:++90 216 346 13 54   Faks:++90 216 346 13 08

e-mail: harman@harmanfolk.com

 

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