Muğla Clock Tower

This guide to the Muğla Clock Tower follows the watch shop that has sat at its base for three generations, and Akif Karadana, who has climbed its stairs to wind the mechanism for forty-six years since inheriting the job from his father. You'll hear how his father arrived from Bulgaria around 1950 to find the clock silent, and about the mayor and his wife who privately financed the tower after a pilgrimage to Damascus. Listen for the European bell still striking the hour and ringing once at the half.