Location of Hayriye on a NASA satellite photo taken from 700 km above the earth.

Link to exact geographic coordinate information for Hayriye

Hayriye is a small Georgian village near the town of Inegöl in the province of Bursa. Hayriye was founded by my ancestors who migrated from the Georgian Back Sea region to Turkey, escaping the turmoil in the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century. Since the 1960s many families migrated to Germany and Austria. Most still keep their houses in Hayriye where the return in the summer time.

I was born in Hayriye on 6 July 1968.

Georgia, country of my ancestors

Old views of the village

In memory of my father Recep Ali Ersoy

Village life in the old days (around 1950). Standing, third from left: my father Recep Ali Ersoy.

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