ESTABLISHMENT

Graduated from İstanbul University in 1968, Kutsal İyicil started his career in the Düzlerçamı Örnek Orman İşletme Şefliği (Düzlerçamı Exemplary Forest Administration). He established the Termessos National Park in seventies and created the first national park museum of Turkey. He worked as the Director of Termessos National Park until 1981. He posed a strict attitude against the cut-downs for maintenance which was wanted to be performed in that year, and he made a written and an official statement saying that kind of interference was against the logic of National Park and the relevant regulations and afterwards he resigned.

Kutsal Iyicil’s resignation from his beloved profession due to his belief required a new search and became the start of sleepless nights. His interest into yuruk life had already started during the university years. When he was a student, a yuruk tent which he encountered in one of activities that he was involved in for developing his professional gains had fascinated him. The warmth and hospitality of the yuruk family he met there was caved into his heart so as not to be forgotten. Later on in his life, wherever he saw any yuruk venue, he paid a visit there and tried to closely observe that atmosphere and lifestyle which touched him very deeply. His creation of yuruk corner for just giving slight taste in the scope of the National Parks Projects in 1978 was the result of that very passion, too.

Tightly held to the natural life and being almost unfamiliar with the trade, Iyicil remembered that yuruk tent again which he met over the peak of that foggy mountain resulting from a variety of thoughts and searches he was in after his resignation and he created FYP Project. Prepared in 1982, the Project was implemented in the small headland which is like a peninsula on the overlooking point of Kemer in late 1986.

Our facility, Folkloric Yuruk Park is established over on the peninsula-like Küçükburun, the State Forest, which has the statue of National Park. It is an original and exclusive business through its rural landscape and the supplementing melody of the music, chickens, rabbits, cats, dogs, birds which are in conformity with the concept in which Yuruk culture is exhibited in a living open space folkloric museum. For the establishment of Yuruk Park, a difficult task was successfully achieved, hurdles are overcome one by one. With all these facts and all the maturity and proud standing through years, Folkloric Yuruk Park will continue to meet the past with the future.