Rosie Reflecting

Oh dear this past weekend we’ve been back on the ‘it’s not fair,’ ‘why can they do that?’ ‘Why are they doing this’? Fact is the Turkish Government makes rules and regulations concerning COVID-19 in Turkey and they then seek to implement these rules. Problem is (cringe) as my German teacher the late W. Lesley Morgan, bless his cotton socks, used to say ‘there are exceptions to every rule’. This last weekend the whole of Turkey was on Lockdown from 9.30 to 15.00 on Saturday and from 9.30 to 18.30 on Sunday. This was due to the university entrance exams, so that those sitting these multiple choice exams in which they require a high grade to get to the best universities, could get to the exams along with their families. Okay. In big cities this keeps all the others off the streets. In tourist areas, as we are, there are not so many needing to travel. Some tourists have been arriving, some are Turkish, some are not (not entirely sure about some of that but I don’t mess with or make t

  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