Ciplakli+Village+by+SELMA+GENC


 * (the first three paragraph) **
 * In Ciplakli Village, where cash and credit cards have no value, peasant women meet their daily needs with barter rather than with money. **


 * In Ciplakli Village, which is linked to Selim county in Kars, peasant women do their shopping by exchanging geese, chicken and eggs just as they live in a period in the history when the money was not invented, yet. While kids exchange eggs to get chips and chewing gums, women exchange geese, chicken and eggs to meet their daily needs of their home. Stating that they cannot find cash all the time, the villager who make a living with agriculture and animal breeding they indicate that they have been meeting their needs by bartering for centuries. **


 * Sevgi Yilmaz staying at Ciplakli Village took the road towards to the grocery with a goose in her hand. In exchange for things she is going to buy, she made a tight bargain with Dudan Gunes, the man operating the grocery store. Sevgi Yilmaz, who sold the goose that she brought with her in exchange for 70 TL said that ‘I brought the goose and I am going to make shopping’ indicating her complaint that the bovine animals do not worth to sell. She said that ‘Our possessions do not count for something. When we take away our cows to the livestock bazaar, we are selling them hardly at a charge of 2000 TL. Like me the fellow country man, having problem with finding money will meet his need with goose bartering.’ **


 * SELMA GENC **


 * MY COMMENT: **

While translating this article, I enjoyed a lot because of the topic. I think that it does not have complex structure, in contrast the word choice and the language use was easy. As it was not a formal text, it was easy to comprehend and find the matching words. Some sentences were like daily speech. I tried to be loyal to text and translate it sense for sense and word by word but word for word was in majority. The words such as livestock bazaar or bartering were challenging word choices.