Dutch Ambassador proves a true trekker
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Anatolia News Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mayıs 23, 2009 00:00
SASON, Batman - Former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Mark Parris, who served in Turkey between 1997 and 2000, was known as the first trekker diplomat. Parris in fact climbed Mount Ararat, Turkey’s highest mountain. Now it seems another diplomat, the Dutch ambassador to Ankara, Marcel Kurpershoek, will be challenging Parris’s reputation.
Kurpershoek walked northeast from the southeastern city Batman’s Sason district to Muş’s Hasköy district on Thursday. He was accompanied by Çakırpınar village’s headman Mehmet Sait Arslan and translator Bilal Alıçdalı. He returned to Sason by car.
Kurpershoek said he was very much affected by the book "Xenophon" and was inspired to walk from Sason to Hasköy. He added that he had "a nice adventure."
"This trip was good exercise for me. We walked for six hours, came across some very interesting people; we met them and spent time with them. Hospitality, people’s sincerity, and nature É Everything was very beautiful. We met an 80-year-old Armenian gentleman; he offered us cheese and bread," said the diplomat. Kurpershoek added: "I would prefer coming to Sason over going to Antalya; I like Sason more than Antalya. I plan to come again and climb the Mereto Mountain."
Kurpershoek said he was very much affected by the book "Xenophon" and was inspired to walk from Sason to Hasköy. He added that he had "a nice adventure."
"This trip was good exercise for me. We walked for six hours, came across some very interesting people; we met them and spent time with them. Hospitality, people’s sincerity, and nature É Everything was very beautiful. We met an 80-year-old Armenian gentleman; he offered us cheese and bread," said the diplomat. Kurpershoek added: "I would prefer coming to Sason over going to Antalya; I like Sason more than Antalya. I plan to come again and climb the Mereto Mountain."