Rosie Reflecting

  Just a note, the two concepts in the title are very loosely related, very loosely. When we first moved out to live in our apartment over a year ago now, well to be precise 16 months ago, we applied for residency. That is to allow us to stay out here for an unlimited time, well in the first place for two years. It’s an interesting process and best carried out using the services of a Turkish speaker who knows what they are doing and knows their way round the system and a Turkish hospital. Fethiye Nazar tree to ward off evil at aside, as that’s another story for, the first year you have to provide for or pay for your own health insurance. Although treatment at one of the private hospitals is generally quite reasonable if needed, as long as I understand, you don’t need to stay in hospital. Only after one year’s residency can you apply to be part of the Turkish state social security system SGK for short . Naturally you have to pay for this. Additionally if, you decide like we

Tuesday evening 9 th June 2020 there was a sudden announcement from the Turkish government that those under curfew would be given, not just one extra day, on which to go out (to be able to get to the bank etc.) but we were allowed out every day from 10:00 to 20:00 hrs. Excitement. My first thought was hairdresser and the very first message I sent was to my hairdresser to arrange an appointment to have my hair cut. Although we might end up with another al round lockdown, if complacency sets in,there appears to be some mask wearing confusion as it transpires that the city provinces i.e. Istanbul and Ankara, to name but two have been given different instructions to us in Muğla where Dalyan is located. We have to wear masks at all times when out of the house, apart from when in a restaurant and sat at the table eating and drinking. In Istanbul and Ankara it appears the instructions are to wear masks in crowded places only. Istanbul and Ankara are now beginning to holiday in Dalyan !!