“Levissi”: A Mysterious Ghost Town & the Sorrowful Story of Kayakoy 

How can one not get melancholic with an abandoned community behind you, emptied from forced migration. Hideous! I'd never heard this sad chapter of history - thank you, Sibel!

Thank you for sharing this amazing documentary. There's not much information about it on RU-vid. Once I first read about it on an Australian page, I went straight to RU-vid to hear more. You're video is the first one I chose. You are one of the rare RU-vidr's which provide valuable information about the town

Hello Sibel, how lovely to hear you speak about this sad chapter. I have listened to all your gladio B lectures and read the book of course. You are a very special lady. Thank you!!

Here at Kayakoy as we speak. It's a beautiful place.

Forces beyond the happiness of community and understanding always destroying what better humans created. Glad it seemed to be a bloodless upheaval. Glad the tragedy was not made worse by the erection of a development.

Such a beautiful place. It's unfortunate that they had to leave.

Humanity would flourish if government had a limited role.

In Greek, yah yah means grandma; nono means yes. Humm. A Great segment. So sad, government's. 💜U. ThxU

Intro singing is haunting as hell. Wow!

Ah.. So well done. I'm going there after seeing this.

3:30 Cheers! Yum! ;-)

Not thousands, millions... The price of nationalism has been very high on both sides

Not to singularly focus on your comment about what "government" does or doesn't do, I would extend that to what government is or isn't. It seems like a paradox. The people who did not have enough government to change the decision of the government they had too much of. I think therein lies the point of realization. That, in agreement with your caveat, government exists. Period. No matter what alternative labels it's given. Much more than the abstractions of Collectivism and Individualism, which I understand to be interdependent, instead of mutually exclusive, government itself is natural and not a mere abstraction, at its core conceptualization. We have laws of nature. These are not completely understood and we should position ourselves to continue to learn about them. Letting our convictions about life emerge as we learn. Trying to relearn what we have forgotten or have been tricked into mischaracterizing. This goes to the heart of philosophy and our abilities to make our lives better though knowledge and application. Then there are the abstractions. The imbalances. The self-destructive convictions that were fed to us, without any realization, learning, or critical thinking. The parroting of memorized platitudes. These are what ultimately position us against nature and have us pointing our fingers at the concept of government, as if it was the enemy. This, IMO, is the Gap. When we talk about the laws of mankind, we are also talking about abstractions. But, there is a connection with the concept of government and a diverse set of outcomes that have amazing analogies to the realization, knowledge, and practice of natural laws. Maybe the most important analogy is that we don't know everything, but we act like it. We believe in the supernatural, superstitious, or ideologically subverted convictions, and point our fingers at the tools we could be using, if we were to continue to learn, realize, and apply. To clarify, and bring it back to the focus of this historic tragedy, we can argue that it was the lack of realized government, and the surplus of abstracted, force fed, parroted abstractions, which were at its source. Practically speaking, we cannot fight tyranny by disallowing government. Instead, we can have that eternal vigilance to continue to remove invalid abstractions, usually fraught with conflicts of interest, and apply what we realize for ourselves, to govern our lives in a way that is natural. To do this, we all have to drop the know-it-all facade and get to work thinking critically about how to use the tools we know exist. We also have to realize that we have been tricked into blaming our own ability to do this, by the ones who have told us that nature and government are the scapegoat, in our lives, our tragedies, and our dreams. We must never pick our convictions from a menu presented to us, with a false choice, by the ones who quickly say "Heads, I win, Tails, you lose."