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Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (27,5 x 21 cm). In English, Turkish, and Greek. 159 p. Color and b/w ills. Exhibition catalogue on Princes' Island of the Marmara sea where Greeks (Rums) of Istanbul used to live. (.) They are insistently asking if the Island has changed too much? How was the city in my memories? They are asking about the daily life, old time people and the neighbourhood. That is to mean they are wondering about the Island in "the time of Rum people". As they ask me about the old days, I feel as if one of the last survivors of an endangered societies. It makes me feel like a remnant of something that's past. Well, certainly this is not that old Island. But, I think we are the ones disappearing. Everytime we look at the past, we are searching for our memories, childhood and youth. And all the years vanished. Those who are really missed a lot and not found are ourselves in the past. Indeed, we don't exist. That dark skinned boy running in the Kopsidas' garden at Hristos Qarter, pursuing a butterfly amid the rosebuds, playing with tin soldiers doesn't exist anymore. And he won't come back. Today's Island that I still love so much and will be keeping is not the same with the Island of my memories. The Island is still there with all its beauties.