Bedri Rahmi Koyu

This guide to Bedri Rahmi Koyu follows the painter-poet Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, who wandered these turquoise bays decades before they became a destination and, finding no canvas, painted a fish onto the rock by the dock. You'll hear how that single image hides several other animal shapes that boatmen still argue over, and how the cove's older name, Taşkaya, was quietly replaced by his. Look up at the rock tombs cut into the hillside above, older than any signature down at the shore.