Netsel Marina

This guide to Netsel Marina in Muğla follows Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, a journalist Turkey exiled to this coast in nineteen twenty-five for a story that offended the state, who took to the water instead of disappearing and started calling himself the Fisherman of Halicarnassus. It traces how his letters home, printed in Istanbul magazines through the nineteen fifties, gave a name, mavi yolculuk or the Blue Voyage, to a fishing tradition centuries older than his exile. Other writers joined him on the water, and within a generation his private habit had become a national idea along this coast.