Pigeon therapy to forget about the crisis
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Doğan News Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Nisan 27, 2009 00:00
KAYSERİ - Feeding pigeons has become an escape from the problems of the economic crisis for the owner of a 43-year-old confection shop in Kayseri.
Cemal Aslandağ, knowns as ’Urban (Clothes) Cemal,’ has been fond of feeding pigeons since he was a child, but before the crisis he could hardly spare an hour a day atop his 7-story shop for the birds. Now he relieves the stress by passing 6 hours each day with the 900 pigeons that visit him.
Bird nests and cages
"It’s a therapy for me to be on the rooftop with the birds during these hard times of the economic crises," he said, adding that in his decades of business he has never seen or experienced an economic crisis as bad as this one.
Aslandağ’s shop is in the center of the city on Cumhuriyet Avenue. On the rooftop he has built bird nests and cages for them to come, spend time and eat. He does not only feed the pigeons on his rooftop but also takes care of them.
"If I don’t spend time with the birds I would simply lose my mind," Aslandağ said, adding that sales have declined 90 percent and he has had to reduce staff from 65 to 11.
"If the crises continues, I might even have to rent out my shop," he said. "If work stops in the sector and at the factories, then there’s no chance shops can survive. And yet there is no serious attempt to make things better."
Bird nests and cages
"It’s a therapy for me to be on the rooftop with the birds during these hard times of the economic crises," he said, adding that in his decades of business he has never seen or experienced an economic crisis as bad as this one.
Aslandağ’s shop is in the center of the city on Cumhuriyet Avenue. On the rooftop he has built bird nests and cages for them to come, spend time and eat. He does not only feed the pigeons on his rooftop but also takes care of them.
"If I don’t spend time with the birds I would simply lose my mind," Aslandağ said, adding that sales have declined 90 percent and he has had to reduce staff from 65 to 11.
"If the crises continues, I might even have to rent out my shop," he said. "If work stops in the sector and at the factories, then there’s no chance shops can survive. And yet there is no serious attempt to make things better."