More friends from Cyprus

  I am jumping ahead and skipping around our adventures.  I have lots to write about our visit with Heidi and Kalle so that will take time.  This email is about two very interesting men we met, one a Cypriot and one a Brit now living in Cyprus; both concerned with the environmental issues concerning Cyprus.

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Saving the Environment of Cyprus

Robin Snape

Charmaine and Linda met Robin on a birding expedition on the Karpaz. We were lucky that the British college students Robin was supervising were staying in Kumyali, close enough so Robin could visit with us for dinner. He was great company and helped cook too! Robin is the marine biologist who leads the Marine Turtle Conservation Project (MTCP.) The MTCP works with some fishermen to put devices on some of their nets to repel the turtles and to raise awareness about the sea turtles. Cyprus is an important location for endangered turtles.

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Robin chopping the onions.  One of the wine bottles contains olive oil from Heidi and Kalle and one is a gift of Cypriot wine from Tuğberk (see below.)

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Randal serenades us.

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Linda, Charmaine and Robin

Tuğberk Emirzade

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Charmaine and Tuğberk at lunch in Çamlibel.

We were eating at the outside table of the small restaurant in Çamlibel and Tuğberk asked if he could share our space. One thing led to another and we treated him to lunch. He passed by Karpaz Gate Marina on his way to check trails on the Karpaz and brought us some of his father-in-law’s Cypriot wine. Unfortunately we weren’t home when he arrived, but our short lunch exchange made a memory.

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Tuğberk spent several years as a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside.

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Tuğberk’s motorbike with Cypriot saddlebags looks like a creature from outer space.

Tuğberk Emirzade

http://www.agamaoutdoor.com/TECVEN resume telling about the environmental activities that Tuğberk

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www.facebook.com/tugberk.emirzade

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