YENICE

There are regular bus services between Kalkım and Yenice. Both the old and the new roads are in use, though the new road is a little shorter. The surrounding landscape is all pine forest with intermittent flat surfaces, gardens and farming fields. The road has some sharp bends but the surface is good. While descending towards Yenice on the left on a bend there is a fountain named after Gazi Mustafa Kemal the founder of the Turkish republic. This fountain in 1981, was the place where Atatürk had a stopover and a chat with the villagers nearby when he was heading towards Çanakkale with the visiting Shah of Iran.

Yenice, located a little in from the main road, is a town that was destroyed by an earthquake and then rebuilt according to a master plan and is the setting for a good settlement.

Nearby villages have many ruins of historic castles and Roman and Byzantine remains. However, there have not been any excavations in the area so far.

One and a half kilometres to the north east the town, between the villages of Çakıroba and Seyvan, there is an mosque thought to be 600 odd year old and an Ottoman cemetery surrounding it. In Yenice the Old Yenice Mosque and the historic plane tree are worth seeing.

Yenice has an ethnography museum: the Belediye Türkevi Müzesi. In this beautiful building there are displays of regional clothing and costumes, and pieces such as typical household wares.

Yenice is located resting against the mountains. When the houses end the fully green mountain starts. Kazdağı and the forest around Yenice is the place where the “Abies Equitrojani” an endemic pine tree, is widespread.