İzmir’in Bademler köyü sadece İzmir’in değil Ege Bölgesi’nin belki de Türkiye’nin en ünlü köylerinden biridir.

Küçücük, az topraklı, yoksul Bademliyi kalkınmış, zengin bir köy haline getirenler köy halkıdır. Şaşılacak bir birlik ve beraberlik içinde el ele vererek çalışıp, didinmişler, birbirlerine güvenip, destek olarak büyük işler başarmışlardır.

Bademliler hakkında çok şey söylenmiş, yazılmış, hatta Türklükleri sorgulanmış, insanlara, doğaya, çalışmaya ve üretmeye olan sevgi ve düşkünlükleri, konukseverlikleri, dürüstlükleri, örf ve adetleri didik didik edilmiş, sonunda, kendilerinin iddia ettikleri gibi Tahtacı Yörük’lerinden oldukları kabul edilmiştir.

Oğuzlar’la birlikte Orta Asya’dan Anadolu’ya göçen Tahtacı Yörükleri tarihte Ağaçeri Yörükleri olarak anılır. Doğu ve Güneydoğu Anadolu’nun ormanlık alanlarını yurt tutan bu Yörükler zamanla Akdeniz ve Ege bölgelerine kaydırılır. Çünkü Akdeniz ve Ege ormanları Venedikliler ile korsanların önde gelen geçim kaynağı olmuşlardır.

Küçücük, az topraklı, yoksul Bademliyi kalkınmış, zengin bir köy haline getirenler köy halkıdır. Şaşılacak bir birlik ve beraberlik içinde el ele vererek çalışıp, didinmişler, birbirlerine güvenip, destek olarak büyük işler başarmışlardır.

 

 

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde denizciliğe önem verilip Akdeniz ve Ege kıyıları koruma altın alınınca Ağaçeri Yörüklerinin önemleri azalmış, çoğu yerleşik yaşama geçip, belli yörelerde obalar ve köyler kurmuşlardır. Ağaçeri kelimesi de zamanla Tahtacı olmuştur.

Nitekim 18. Yüzyıl kayıtlarında Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar ve Aydın’a yerleştirilen Tahtacı Cemaati’nden söz edilir. Kayıtlara göre Batı Ege’deki iki büyük Tahtacı merkezlerinden biri İzmir Narlıdere’deki Yanınyatır Ocağı, diğeri Aydın Reşadiye’deki Hacı Emirli Ocağıdır.

İzmir Narlıdere Ocağı’na bağlı 12 oymaktan en güçlü ve kalabalık olanı Çobanlı’dır.

Tahtacı Yörükleri kendilerini Emevi zulmüne karşı çıkıp, gerçek İslam’ı savunan, Caferi mezhebine bağlı Müslümanlar olarak kabul ederler. Hz. Muhammet ile Hz. Ali’ye derin saygı ve sevgi beslerler. Hacıbektaş Ocağı’yla ilgileri yoktur.

Bademler köyü Urla ilçe merkezine bağlıdır. Urla Yarımada’sının başlangıcında yer alan köyün Urla’ya uzaklığı 9, Seferihisar’a uzaklığı 10, İzmir’e uzaklığı 35 kilometredir.

Köy halkının en önemli özelliklerinden biri birlikte harekettir. Köyde kadın, erkek ayrımı yoktur. Kadınlar da erkekler kadar çalışır ve saygı görür.

Yapılması gereken işler konusunda düşünüp, öneri verenler sadece kendilerini değil bütün köyü düşünürler. En büyük rehberleri Kuran ve Kuran’ı iyi bilen, tarafsız yorumlayan, çıkar gözetmeyen yaşlılar, görmüş geçirmiş ehil kişilerdir.

İnce eleyip, sık dokumayı adet edinmiş köy halkı tekrar tekrar toplanıp, tartışır ve sonunda karar alırlar. Alınan karara bütün köylüler uyar. Köyün temizliğinden, bakımından, köy halkının huzur ve güveninden, köy çocuklarının eğitiminden bütün köy halkı sorumludur.

Bir Kooperatif kurup, köy halkının ihtiyaç duyduğu maddeleri daha ucuza alıp, satmak fikri akla ve keseye uygun geldiğinden köyde bir tüketim kooperatifi kurulur.

Köy halkından 8 kişinin ortak olduğu tüketim kooperatifinin üye sayısı ilk yılın sonunda 33 kişiye ulaşır. Ama bu henüz başlangıçtır. Bademler köyü tüketim kooperatifi büyük ilgi görmüş, komşu köyler bile alışverişlerini kooperatiften yapmaya başlamışlar.

Bademler köyünde tarlasız, topraksız köylü sayısı çoktur. Köy halkının en büyük arzularından biri onları da toprak sahibi yapmaktır. Ancak köy halkının maddi durumu yetersizdir.

Toplanıp, konuşulur. Tartışılır. Danışılır. O yıllarda durumları iyi olmayan vatandaşlarımız çalışıp, para kazanmak için Almanya’ya ve diğer Avrupa ülkelerine çalışmaya gitmektedir.

Tüketim kooperatifi 1962 yılında köy kalkınma kooperatifine dönüştürülür. Kooperatifin üye sayısı 74 olmuştur. 53 kooperatif üyesi yurtdışına çalışmaya gönderilir. Bu üyelerden söz alınmıştır, kazançlarının bir kısmını kooperatife göndereceklerdir.

Verilen sözlere sadık kalınır. ‘’Birlikten kuvvet doğar’’ sözü bir kez daha kanıtlanır.

Kalkınma Kooperatifi

Bademler köylülerinin 1962 yılında kurdukları kalkınma kooperatifi Türkiye’nin ilk kalkınma kooperatifidir ve daha sonra kurulan birçok kalkınma kooperatifine örnek olmuştur.

Küçük, az topraklı Bademler köyünün yakınlarında ekim, dikim, yapılmayan boş topraklar vardır. Yurt dışına çalışmaya gönderilen kooperatif üyelerinin gönderdikleri paralarla önce bu âtıl topraklar ile bu toprakları düzeltip, kullanmaya açacak araç, gereç, makineler alınır. Sonra, hummalı ve planlı bir çalışma ile zeytin fidanları dikilir. Amaç bir zeytinlik kurmak, ayrıca tavukçuluk ve hayvancılık yapmaktır.

Köyün ve köylülerin kazançları artmakta ve Bademler köyünün görünüşü değişmektedir. Köyde sağlık ocağı ve kütüphane kurulmuş, gazete çıkarılmış, radyo yayınları yapılmaya başlamıştır. İlçe merkezine minibüs seferleri vardır.

Genişleyen ve büyüyen kooperatif mağazasında sadece tüketim ürünleri değil köylünün su tulumbası, ilaçlama makinesi, kaliteli tohumluk, fidan gibi ihtiyaçları da karşılanmakta, toprak sahibi olmak isteyenlere taksitle toprak satışı yapılmaktadır.

Kalkınma kooperatifinin yirminci yılı olan 1982 yılına gelindiğinde Bademler, köyü 3.000 dekarlık alanı sulayan göleti, kooperatifin 780 dönümlük tarım alanı, serası, narenciye bahçesi ve zeytinyağı fabrikası ile yörenin en zengin, en gelişmiş beldesi haline gelmiştir.

Bu zaferin temelinde yatan sevgi, güven, dayanışma ve çalışmadır. İnsanlar bencillik, kıskançlık, çekememezlik gibi şeytani duygulardan arınıp, Yüce Allah’ın emirlerine uyup, kendi çıkarlarının başkalarının çıkarlarına bağlı olduğunu anlayıp, dayanışma içinde çalıştıkça Yüce Allah’ın yardım ve desteğini alırlar.

Bu yüzden Peygamber Efendimiz ‘’Rabbimiz insanın doğru çalışmasına ve niyetine bakar’’ buyurmuştur.

Çok bilinen bir diğer buyrukları da şöyledir:

‘’ İnsanın en hayırlısı insanlara en çok faydalı olan ve iyilik sağlayandır.’’

Bademler köyü kalkınma kooperatifi birçok köye örnek olmuş, İzmir yöresindeki köyler kalkınma kooperatifi kurmaya başlamışlar, 1971 yılında bir araya gelen 13 köy kooperatifi İzmir’de köy kalınma kooperatifleri (Köy Koop.) İzmir Birliği’ni oluşturmuşlardır.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Günümüzde Bademli

İzmirlilerin çoğu bilmez yıllardan beri İzmir’de satılan sebze ve meyvelerin, zeytinlerin, zeytinyağlarının, şehri süsleyen ağaçlar, çiçekler ve fidanların büyük bir kısmı Bademler köyünden gelir.

Bademler Köyü Kalkınma Kooperatifi’nin çalışmalarını yakından izleyen İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi 2010 yılından beri kooperatif ile işbirliği yapmaktadır.

2018 yılında Bademler Köyü’nde 4 milyon TL tutarındaki yeni alım sözleşmesini imzalayan da zamanki Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu, imza töreninden sonra Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nü hizmete açtı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyüİzmirlilerin merakla bekledikleri Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü, İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nin örnek bir projesiydi. Türkiye’de bir ilk ve tek olan bu proje, Bademler köyüne günübirlik gelen misafirlerin isteklerinden doğmuştu.

Doğa ve köy yaşamı özlemi çeken misafirler ‘’Keşke bizim de burada küçük bir evimiz ve küçük bir bahçemiz olsa. Temiz havada birkaç gün köy ortamında yaşayabilsek. Şehirden uzaklaşıp, başımızı dinlesek.’’ Diyorlardı. Giderek artan bu istekleri dile getirenler arasında yabancı turistler de çoktu.

Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu konuyu Kooperatif Başkanı Mehmet Sever’e açtı. Kooperatif Başkanı konuya sıcak yaklaşınca Urla Kaymakamı Önder Can’ın görüşü alındı.

Gerekli izinler alındı, çalışmalar yapıldı ve Büyükşehir Belediyesi Doğal Yaşam Köyü doğdu.

Bademler köyünde kooperatif arazisinin bir kısmı 7 milyon TL harcanarak bungalov evler, üretim parselleri, yürüyüş ve bisiklet yolları yapıldı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü bir dinlenme ve üretim merkezi olacak, bungalov evlerde kalacak konuklar kooperatif arazisindeki parsellerde istediklerini üreteceklerdi.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nün yurtdışı tanıtımı için İngilizce ve Almanca broşürler bastırılıp, bir de İngilizce web sitesi yaptırıldı.

Merak edenlere ve Bademler köyünü görmek isteyenlere duyurulur.

Bademler village of Izmir may be not only one of the most famous villages of Izmir,
but of the Aegean and perhaps of Turkey.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

Much has been said and written about the people of Bademler, their Turkishness has been questioned, their love and devotion to people, nature, work and production, hospitality, honesty, customs and traditions have been searched in every nook and cranny and eventually they are considered to be from the Tahtacı Nomads.

Tahtacı Nomads who migrated from Central Asia to Anatolia together with Oğuzlar were called as the Ağaçeri Nomads in history.

These Monads, which held the forested areas of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, moved to the Mediterranean and Aegean regions over time, because the Mediterranean and Aegean forests had been the leading sources of livelihood for the Venetians and pirates.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde denizciliğe önem verilip Akdeniz ve Ege kıyıları koruma altın alınınca Ağaçeri Yörüklerinin önemleri azalmış, çoğu yerleşik yaşama geçip, belli yörelerde obalar ve köyler kurmuşlardır. Ağaçeri kelimesi de zamanla Tahtacı olmuştur.

Nitekim 18. Yüzyıl kayıtlarında Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar ve Aydın’a yerleştirilen Tahtacı Cemaati’nden söz edilir. Kayıtlara göre Batı Ege’deki iki büyük Tahtacı merkezlerinden biri İzmir Narlıdere’deki Yanınyatır Ocağı, diğeri Aydın Reşadiye’deki Hacı Emirli Ocağıdır.

İzmir Narlıdere Ocağı’na bağlı 12 oymaktan en güçlü ve kalabalık olanı Çobanlı’dır.

Tahtacı Yörükleri kendilerini Emevi zulmüne karşı çıkıp, gerçek İslam’ı savunan, Caferi mezhebine bağlı Müslümanlar olarak kabul ederler. Hz. Muhammet ile Hz. Ali’ye derin saygı ve sevgi beslerler. Hacıbektaş Ocağı’yla ilgileri yoktur.

Bademler köyü Urla ilçe merkezine bağlıdır. Urla Yarımada’sının başlangıcında yer alan köyün Urla’ya uzaklığı 9, Seferihisar’a uzaklığı 10, İzmir’e uzaklığı 35 kilometredir.

Köy halkının en önemli özelliklerinden biri birlikte harekettir. Köyde kadın, erkek ayrımı yoktur. Kadınlar da erkekler kadar çalışır ve saygı görür.

Yapılması gereken işler konusunda düşünüp, öneri verenler sadece kendilerini değil bütün köyü düşünürler. En büyük rehberleri Kuran ve Kuran’ı iyi bilen, tarafsız yorumlayan, çıkar gözetmeyen yaşlılar, görmüş geçirmiş ehil kişilerdir.

İnce eleyip, sık dokumayı adet edinmiş köy halkı tekrar tekrar toplanıp, tartışır ve sonunda karar alırlar. Alınan karara bütün köylüler uyar. Köyün temizliğinden, bakımından, köy halkının huzur ve güveninden, köy çocuklarının eğitiminden bütün köy halkı sorumludur.

Bir Kooperatif kurup, köy halkının ihtiyaç duyduğu maddeleri daha ucuza alıp, satmak fikri akla ve keseye uygun geldiğinden köyde bir tüketim kooperatifi kurulur.

Köy halkından 8 kişinin ortak olduğu tüketim kooperatifinin üye sayısı ilk yılın sonunda 33 kişiye ulaşır. Ama bu henüz başlangıçtır. Bademler köyü tüketim kooperatifi büyük ilgi görmüş, komşu köyler bile alışverişlerini kooperatiften yapmaya başlamışlar.

Bademler köyünde tarlasız, topraksız köylü sayısı çoktur. Köy halkının en büyük arzularından biri onları da toprak sahibi yapmaktır. Ancak köy halkının maddi durumu yetersizdir.

Toplanıp, konuşulur. Tartışılır. Danışılır. O yıllarda durumları iyi olmayan vatandaşlarımız çalışıp, para kazanmak için Almanya’ya ve diğer Avrupa ülkelerine çalışmaya gitmektedir.

Tüketim kooperatifi 1962 yılında köy kalkınma kooperatifine dönüştürülür. Kooperatifin üye sayısı 74 olmuştur. 53 kooperatif üyesi yurtdışına çalışmaya gönderilir. Bu üyelerden söz alınmıştır, kazançlarının bir kısmını kooperatife göndereceklerdir.

Verilen sözlere sadık kalınır. ‘’Birlikten kuvvet doğar’’ sözü bir kez daha kanıtlanır.

Kalkınma Kooperatifi

Bademler köylülerinin 1962 yılında kurdukları kalkınma kooperatifi Türkiye’nin ilk kalkınma kooperatifidir ve daha sonra kurulan birçok kalkınma kooperatifine örnek olmuştur.

Küçük, az topraklı Bademler köyünün yakınlarında ekim, dikim, yapılmayan boş topraklar vardır. Yurt dışına çalışmaya gönderilen kooperatif üyelerinin gönderdikleri paralarla önce bu âtıl topraklar ile bu toprakları düzeltip, kullanmaya açacak araç, gereç, makineler alınır. Sonra, hummalı ve planlı bir çalışma ile zeytin fidanları dikilir. Amaç bir zeytinlik kurmak, ayrıca tavukçuluk ve hayvancılık yapmaktır.

Köyün ve köylülerin kazançları artmakta ve Bademler köyünün görünüşü değişmektedir. Köyde sağlık ocağı ve kütüphane kurulmuş, gazete çıkarılmış, radyo yayınları yapılmaya başlamıştır. İlçe merkezine minibüs seferleri vardır.

Genişleyen ve büyüyen kooperatif mağazasında sadece tüketim ürünleri değil köylünün su tulumbası, ilaçlama makinesi, kaliteli tohumluk, fidan gibi ihtiyaçları da karşılanmakta, toprak sahibi olmak isteyenlere taksitle toprak satışı yapılmaktadır.

Kalkınma kooperatifinin yirminci yılı olan 1982 yılına gelindiğinde Bademler, köyü 3.000 dekarlık alanı sulayan göleti, kooperatifin 780 dönümlük tarım alanı, serası, narenciye bahçesi ve zeytinyağı fabrikası ile yörenin en zengin, en gelişmiş beldesi haline gelmiştir.

Bu zaferin temelinde yatan sevgi, güven, dayanışma ve çalışmadır. İnsanlar bencillik, kıskançlık, çekememezlik gibi şeytani duygulardan arınıp, Yüce Allah’ın emirlerine uyup, kendi çıkarlarının başkalarının çıkarlarına bağlı olduğunu anlayıp, dayanışma içinde çalıştıkça Yüce Allah’ın yardım ve desteğini alırlar.

Bu yüzden Peygamber Efendimiz ‘’Rabbimiz insanın doğru çalışmasına ve niyetine bakar’’ buyurmuştur.

Çok bilinen bir diğer buyrukları da şöyledir:

‘’ İnsanın en hayırlısı insanlara en çok faydalı olan ve iyilik sağlayandır.’’

Bademler köyü kalkınma kooperatifi birçok köye örnek olmuş, İzmir yöresindeki köyler kalkınma kooperatifi kurmaya başlamışlar, 1971 yılında bir araya gelen 13 köy kooperatifi İzmir’de köy kalınma kooperatifleri (Köy Koop.) İzmir Birliği’ni oluşturmuşlardır.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Günümüzde Bademli

İzmirlilerin çoğu bilmez yıllardan beri İzmir’de satılan sebze ve meyvelerin, zeytinlerin, zeytinyağlarının, şehri süsleyen ağaçlar, çiçekler ve fidanların büyük bir kısmı Bademler köyünden gelir.

Bademler Köyü Kalkınma Kooperatifi’nin çalışmalarını yakından izleyen İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi 2010 yılından beri kooperatif ile işbirliği yapmaktadır.

2018 yılında Bademler Köyü’nde 4 milyon TL tutarındaki yeni alım sözleşmesini imzalayan da zamanki Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu, imza töreninden sonra Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nü hizmete açtı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyüİzmirlilerin merakla bekledikleri Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü, İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nin örnek bir projesiydi. Türkiye’de bir ilk ve tek olan bu proje, Bademler köyüne günübirlik gelen misafirlerin isteklerinden doğmuştu.

Doğa ve köy yaşamı özlemi çeken misafirler ‘’Keşke bizim de burada küçük bir evimiz ve küçük bir bahçemiz olsa. Temiz havada birkaç gün köy ortamında yaşayabilsek. Şehirden uzaklaşıp, başımızı dinlesek.’’ Diyorlardı. Giderek artan bu istekleri dile getirenler arasında yabancı turistler de çoktu.

Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu konuyu Kooperatif Başkanı Mehmet Sever’e açtı. Kooperatif Başkanı konuya sıcak yaklaşınca Urla Kaymakamı Önder Can’ın görüşü alındı.

Gerekli izinler alındı, çalışmalar yapıldı ve Büyükşehir Belediyesi Doğal Yaşam Köyü doğdu.

Bademler köyünde kooperatif arazisinin bir kısmı 7 milyon TL harcanarak bungalov evler, üretim parselleri, yürüyüş ve bisiklet yolları yapıldı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü bir dinlenme ve üretim merkezi olacak, bungalov evlerde kalacak konuklar kooperatif arazisindeki parsellerde istediklerini üreteceklerdi.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nün yurtdışı tanıtımı için İngilizce ve Almanca broşürler bastırılıp, bir de İngilizce web sitesi yaptırıldı.

Merak edenlere ve Bademler köyünü görmek isteyenlere duyurulur.

Bademler village of Izmir may be not only one of the most famous villages of Izmir,
but of the Aegean and perhaps of Turkey.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

Much has been said and written about the people of Bademler, their Turkishness has been questioned, their love and devotion to people, nature, work and production, hospitality, honesty, customs and traditions have been searched in every nook and cranny and eventually they are considered to be from the Tahtacı Nomads.

Tahtacı Nomads who migrated from Central Asia to Anatolia together with Oğuzlar were called as the Ağaçeri Nomads in history.

These Monads, which held the forested areas of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, moved to the Mediterranean and Aegean regions over time, because the Mediterranean and Aegean forests had been the leading sources of livelihood for the Venetians and pirates.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde denizciliğe önem verilip Akdeniz ve Ege kıyıları koruma altın alınınca Ağaçeri Yörüklerinin önemleri azalmış, çoğu yerleşik yaşama geçip, belli yörelerde obalar ve köyler kurmuşlardır. Ağaçeri kelimesi de zamanla Tahtacı olmuştur.

Nitekim 18. Yüzyıl kayıtlarında Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar ve Aydın’a yerleştirilen Tahtacı Cemaati’nden söz edilir. Kayıtlara göre Batı Ege’deki iki büyük Tahtacı merkezlerinden biri İzmir Narlıdere’deki Yanınyatır Ocağı, diğeri Aydın Reşadiye’deki Hacı Emirli Ocağıdır.

İzmir Narlıdere Ocağı’na bağlı 12 oymaktan en güçlü ve kalabalık olanı Çobanlı’dır.

Tahtacı Yörükleri kendilerini Emevi zulmüne karşı çıkıp, gerçek İslam’ı savunan, Caferi mezhebine bağlı Müslümanlar olarak kabul ederler. Hz. Muhammet ile Hz. Ali’ye derin saygı ve sevgi beslerler. Hacıbektaş Ocağı’yla ilgileri yoktur.

Bademler köyü Urla ilçe merkezine bağlıdır. Urla Yarımada’sının başlangıcında yer alan köyün Urla’ya uzaklığı 9, Seferihisar’a uzaklığı 10, İzmir’e uzaklığı 35 kilometredir.

Köy halkının en önemli özelliklerinden biri birlikte harekettir. Köyde kadın, erkek ayrımı yoktur. Kadınlar da erkekler kadar çalışır ve saygı görür.

Yapılması gereken işler konusunda düşünüp, öneri verenler sadece kendilerini değil bütün köyü düşünürler. En büyük rehberleri Kuran ve Kuran’ı iyi bilen, tarafsız yorumlayan, çıkar gözetmeyen yaşlılar, görmüş geçirmiş ehil kişilerdir.

İnce eleyip, sık dokumayı adet edinmiş köy halkı tekrar tekrar toplanıp, tartışır ve sonunda karar alırlar. Alınan karara bütün köylüler uyar. Köyün temizliğinden, bakımından, köy halkının huzur ve güveninden, köy çocuklarının eğitiminden bütün köy halkı sorumludur.

Bir Kooperatif kurup, köy halkının ihtiyaç duyduğu maddeleri daha ucuza alıp, satmak fikri akla ve keseye uygun geldiğinden köyde bir tüketim kooperatifi kurulur.

Köy halkından 8 kişinin ortak olduğu tüketim kooperatifinin üye sayısı ilk yılın sonunda 33 kişiye ulaşır. Ama bu henüz başlangıçtır. Bademler köyü tüketim kooperatifi büyük ilgi görmüş, komşu köyler bile alışverişlerini kooperatiften yapmaya başlamışlar.

Bademler köyünde tarlasız, topraksız köylü sayısı çoktur. Köy halkının en büyük arzularından biri onları da toprak sahibi yapmaktır. Ancak köy halkının maddi durumu yetersizdir.

Toplanıp, konuşulur. Tartışılır. Danışılır. O yıllarda durumları iyi olmayan vatandaşlarımız çalışıp, para kazanmak için Almanya’ya ve diğer Avrupa ülkelerine çalışmaya gitmektedir.

Tüketim kooperatifi 1962 yılında köy kalkınma kooperatifine dönüştürülür. Kooperatifin üye sayısı 74 olmuştur. 53 kooperatif üyesi yurtdışına çalışmaya gönderilir. Bu üyelerden söz alınmıştır, kazançlarının bir kısmını kooperatife göndereceklerdir.

Verilen sözlere sadık kalınır. ‘’Birlikten kuvvet doğar’’ sözü bir kez daha kanıtlanır.

Kalkınma Kooperatifi

Bademler köylülerinin 1962 yılında kurdukları kalkınma kooperatifi Türkiye’nin ilk kalkınma kooperatifidir ve daha sonra kurulan birçok kalkınma kooperatifine örnek olmuştur.

Küçük, az topraklı Bademler köyünün yakınlarında ekim, dikim, yapılmayan boş topraklar vardır. Yurt dışına çalışmaya gönderilen kooperatif üyelerinin gönderdikleri paralarla önce bu âtıl topraklar ile bu toprakları düzeltip, kullanmaya açacak araç, gereç, makineler alınır. Sonra, hummalı ve planlı bir çalışma ile zeytin fidanları dikilir. Amaç bir zeytinlik kurmak, ayrıca tavukçuluk ve hayvancılık yapmaktır.

Köyün ve köylülerin kazançları artmakta ve Bademler köyünün görünüşü değişmektedir. Köyde sağlık ocağı ve kütüphane kurulmuş, gazete çıkarılmış, radyo yayınları yapılmaya başlamıştır. İlçe merkezine minibüs seferleri vardır.

Genişleyen ve büyüyen kooperatif mağazasında sadece tüketim ürünleri değil köylünün su tulumbası, ilaçlama makinesi, kaliteli tohumluk, fidan gibi ihtiyaçları da karşılanmakta, toprak sahibi olmak isteyenlere taksitle toprak satışı yapılmaktadır.

Kalkınma kooperatifinin yirminci yılı olan 1982 yılına gelindiğinde Bademler, köyü 3.000 dekarlık alanı sulayan göleti, kooperatifin 780 dönümlük tarım alanı, serası, narenciye bahçesi ve zeytinyağı fabrikası ile yörenin en zengin, en gelişmiş beldesi haline gelmiştir.

Bu zaferin temelinde yatan sevgi, güven, dayanışma ve çalışmadır. İnsanlar bencillik, kıskançlık, çekememezlik gibi şeytani duygulardan arınıp, Yüce Allah’ın emirlerine uyup, kendi çıkarlarının başkalarının çıkarlarına bağlı olduğunu anlayıp, dayanışma içinde çalıştıkça Yüce Allah’ın yardım ve desteğini alırlar.

Bu yüzden Peygamber Efendimiz ‘’Rabbimiz insanın doğru çalışmasına ve niyetine bakar’’ buyurmuştur.

Çok bilinen bir diğer buyrukları da şöyledir:

‘’ İnsanın en hayırlısı insanlara en çok faydalı olan ve iyilik sağlayandır.’’

Bademler köyü kalkınma kooperatifi birçok köye örnek olmuş, İzmir yöresindeki köyler kalkınma kooperatifi kurmaya başlamışlar, 1971 yılında bir araya gelen 13 köy kooperatifi İzmir’de köy kalınma kooperatifleri (Köy Koop.) İzmir Birliği’ni oluşturmuşlardır.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Günümüzde Bademli

İzmirlilerin çoğu bilmez yıllardan beri İzmir’de satılan sebze ve meyvelerin, zeytinlerin, zeytinyağlarının, şehri süsleyen ağaçlar, çiçekler ve fidanların büyük bir kısmı Bademler köyünden gelir.

Bademler Köyü Kalkınma Kooperatifi’nin çalışmalarını yakından izleyen İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi 2010 yılından beri kooperatif ile işbirliği yapmaktadır.

2018 yılında Bademler Köyü’nde 4 milyon TL tutarındaki yeni alım sözleşmesini imzalayan da zamanki Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu, imza töreninden sonra Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nü hizmete açtı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyüİzmirlilerin merakla bekledikleri Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü, İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nin örnek bir projesiydi. Türkiye’de bir ilk ve tek olan bu proje, Bademler köyüne günübirlik gelen misafirlerin isteklerinden doğmuştu.

Doğa ve köy yaşamı özlemi çeken misafirler ‘’Keşke bizim de burada küçük bir evimiz ve küçük bir bahçemiz olsa. Temiz havada birkaç gün köy ortamında yaşayabilsek. Şehirden uzaklaşıp, başımızı dinlesek.’’ Diyorlardı. Giderek artan bu istekleri dile getirenler arasında yabancı turistler de çoktu.

Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu konuyu Kooperatif Başkanı Mehmet Sever’e açtı. Kooperatif Başkanı konuya sıcak yaklaşınca Urla Kaymakamı Önder Can’ın görüşü alındı.

Gerekli izinler alındı, çalışmalar yapıldı ve Büyükşehir Belediyesi Doğal Yaşam Köyü doğdu.

Bademler köyünde kooperatif arazisinin bir kısmı 7 milyon TL harcanarak bungalov evler, üretim parselleri, yürüyüş ve bisiklet yolları yapıldı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü bir dinlenme ve üretim merkezi olacak, bungalov evlerde kalacak konuklar kooperatif arazisindeki parsellerde istediklerini üreteceklerdi.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nün yurtdışı tanıtımı için İngilizce ve Almanca broşürler bastırılıp, bir de İngilizce web sitesi yaptırıldı.

Merak edenlere ve Bademler köyünü görmek isteyenlere duyurulur.

Bademler village of Izmir may be not only one of the most famous villages of Izmir,
but of the Aegean and perhaps of Turkey.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

Much has been said and written about the people of Bademler, their Turkishness has been questioned, their love and devotion to people, nature, work and production, hospitality, honesty, customs and traditions have been searched in every nook and cranny and eventually they are considered to be from the Tahtacı Nomads.

Tahtacı Nomads who migrated from Central Asia to Anatolia together with Oğuzlar were called as the Ağaçeri Nomads in history.

These Monads, which held the forested areas of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, moved to the Mediterranean and Aegean regions over time, because the Mediterranean and Aegean forests had been the leading sources of livelihood for the Venetians and pirates.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

 

 

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde denizciliğe önem verilip Akdeniz ve Ege kıyıları koruma altın alınınca Ağaçeri Yörüklerinin önemleri azalmış, çoğu yerleşik yaşama geçip, belli yörelerde obalar ve köyler kurmuşlardır. Ağaçeri kelimesi de zamanla Tahtacı olmuştur.

Nitekim 18. Yüzyıl kayıtlarında Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar ve Aydın’a yerleştirilen Tahtacı Cemaati’nden söz edilir. Kayıtlara göre Batı Ege’deki iki büyük Tahtacı merkezlerinden biri İzmir Narlıdere’deki Yanınyatır Ocağı, diğeri Aydın Reşadiye’deki Hacı Emirli Ocağıdır.

İzmir Narlıdere Ocağı’na bağlı 12 oymaktan en güçlü ve kalabalık olanı Çobanlı’dır.

Tahtacı Yörükleri kendilerini Emevi zulmüne karşı çıkıp, gerçek İslam’ı savunan, Caferi mezhebine bağlı Müslümanlar olarak kabul ederler. Hz. Muhammet ile Hz. Ali’ye derin saygı ve sevgi beslerler. Hacıbektaş Ocağı’yla ilgileri yoktur.

Bademler köyü Urla ilçe merkezine bağlıdır. Urla Yarımada’sının başlangıcında yer alan köyün Urla’ya uzaklığı 9, Seferihisar’a uzaklığı 10, İzmir’e uzaklığı 35 kilometredir.

Köy halkının en önemli özelliklerinden biri birlikte harekettir. Köyde kadın, erkek ayrımı yoktur. Kadınlar da erkekler kadar çalışır ve saygı görür.

Yapılması gereken işler konusunda düşünüp, öneri verenler sadece kendilerini değil bütün köyü düşünürler. En büyük rehberleri Kuran ve Kuran’ı iyi bilen, tarafsız yorumlayan, çıkar gözetmeyen yaşlılar, görmüş geçirmiş ehil kişilerdir.

İnce eleyip, sık dokumayı adet edinmiş köy halkı tekrar tekrar toplanıp, tartışır ve sonunda karar alırlar. Alınan karara bütün köylüler uyar. Köyün temizliğinden, bakımından, köy halkının huzur ve güveninden, köy çocuklarının eğitiminden bütün köy halkı sorumludur.

Bir Kooperatif kurup, köy halkının ihtiyaç duyduğu maddeleri daha ucuza alıp, satmak fikri akla ve keseye uygun geldiğinden köyde bir tüketim kooperatifi kurulur.

Köy halkından 8 kişinin ortak olduğu tüketim kooperatifinin üye sayısı ilk yılın sonunda 33 kişiye ulaşır. Ama bu henüz başlangıçtır. Bademler köyü tüketim kooperatifi büyük ilgi görmüş, komşu köyler bile alışverişlerini kooperatiften yapmaya başlamışlar.

Bademler köyünde tarlasız, topraksız köylü sayısı çoktur. Köy halkının en büyük arzularından biri onları da toprak sahibi yapmaktır. Ancak köy halkının maddi durumu yetersizdir.

Toplanıp, konuşulur. Tartışılır. Danışılır. O yıllarda durumları iyi olmayan vatandaşlarımız çalışıp, para kazanmak için Almanya’ya ve diğer Avrupa ülkelerine çalışmaya gitmektedir.

Tüketim kooperatifi 1962 yılında köy kalkınma kooperatifine dönüştürülür. Kooperatifin üye sayısı 74 olmuştur. 53 kooperatif üyesi yurtdışına çalışmaya gönderilir. Bu üyelerden söz alınmıştır, kazançlarının bir kısmını kooperatife göndereceklerdir.

Verilen sözlere sadık kalınır. ‘’Birlikten kuvvet doğar’’ sözü bir kez daha kanıtlanır.

Kalkınma Kooperatifi

Bademler köylülerinin 1962 yılında kurdukları kalkınma kooperatifi Türkiye’nin ilk kalkınma kooperatifidir ve daha sonra kurulan birçok kalkınma kooperatifine örnek olmuştur.

Küçük, az topraklı Bademler köyünün yakınlarında ekim, dikim, yapılmayan boş topraklar vardır. Yurt dışına çalışmaya gönderilen kooperatif üyelerinin gönderdikleri paralarla önce bu âtıl topraklar ile bu toprakları düzeltip, kullanmaya açacak araç, gereç, makineler alınır. Sonra, hummalı ve planlı bir çalışma ile zeytin fidanları dikilir. Amaç bir zeytinlik kurmak, ayrıca tavukçuluk ve hayvancılık yapmaktır.

Köyün ve köylülerin kazançları artmakta ve Bademler köyünün görünüşü değişmektedir. Köyde sağlık ocağı ve kütüphane kurulmuş, gazete çıkarılmış, radyo yayınları yapılmaya başlamıştır. İlçe merkezine minibüs seferleri vardır.

Genişleyen ve büyüyen kooperatif mağazasında sadece tüketim ürünleri değil köylünün su tulumbası, ilaçlama makinesi, kaliteli tohumluk, fidan gibi ihtiyaçları da karşılanmakta, toprak sahibi olmak isteyenlere taksitle toprak satışı yapılmaktadır.

Kalkınma kooperatifinin yirminci yılı olan 1982 yılına gelindiğinde Bademler, köyü 3.000 dekarlık alanı sulayan göleti, kooperatifin 780 dönümlük tarım alanı, serası, narenciye bahçesi ve zeytinyağı fabrikası ile yörenin en zengin, en gelişmiş beldesi haline gelmiştir.

Bu zaferin temelinde yatan sevgi, güven, dayanışma ve çalışmadır. İnsanlar bencillik, kıskançlık, çekememezlik gibi şeytani duygulardan arınıp, Yüce Allah’ın emirlerine uyup, kendi çıkarlarının başkalarının çıkarlarına bağlı olduğunu anlayıp, dayanışma içinde çalıştıkça Yüce Allah’ın yardım ve desteğini alırlar.

Bu yüzden Peygamber Efendimiz ‘’Rabbimiz insanın doğru çalışmasına ve niyetine bakar’’ buyurmuştur.

Çok bilinen bir diğer buyrukları da şöyledir:

‘’ İnsanın en hayırlısı insanlara en çok faydalı olan ve iyilik sağlayandır.’’

Bademler köyü kalkınma kooperatifi birçok köye örnek olmuş, İzmir yöresindeki köyler kalkınma kooperatifi kurmaya başlamışlar, 1971 yılında bir araya gelen 13 köy kooperatifi İzmir’de köy kalınma kooperatifleri (Köy Koop.) İzmir Birliği’ni oluşturmuşlardır.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Günümüzde Bademli

İzmirlilerin çoğu bilmez yıllardan beri İzmir’de satılan sebze ve meyvelerin, zeytinlerin, zeytinyağlarının, şehri süsleyen ağaçlar, çiçekler ve fidanların büyük bir kısmı Bademler köyünden gelir.

Bademler Köyü Kalkınma Kooperatifi’nin çalışmalarını yakından izleyen İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi 2010 yılından beri kooperatif ile işbirliği yapmaktadır.

2018 yılında Bademler Köyü’nde 4 milyon TL tutarındaki yeni alım sözleşmesini imzalayan da zamanki Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu, imza töreninden sonra Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nü hizmete açtı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyüİzmirlilerin merakla bekledikleri Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü, İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nin örnek bir projesiydi. Türkiye’de bir ilk ve tek olan bu proje, Bademler köyüne günübirlik gelen misafirlerin isteklerinden doğmuştu.

Doğa ve köy yaşamı özlemi çeken misafirler ‘’Keşke bizim de burada küçük bir evimiz ve küçük bir bahçemiz olsa. Temiz havada birkaç gün köy ortamında yaşayabilsek. Şehirden uzaklaşıp, başımızı dinlesek.’’ Diyorlardı. Giderek artan bu istekleri dile getirenler arasında yabancı turistler de çoktu.

Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu konuyu Kooperatif Başkanı Mehmet Sever’e açtı. Kooperatif Başkanı konuya sıcak yaklaşınca Urla Kaymakamı Önder Can’ın görüşü alındı.

Gerekli izinler alındı, çalışmalar yapıldı ve Büyükşehir Belediyesi Doğal Yaşam Köyü doğdu.

Bademler köyünde kooperatif arazisinin bir kısmı 7 milyon TL harcanarak bungalov evler, üretim parselleri, yürüyüş ve bisiklet yolları yapıldı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü bir dinlenme ve üretim merkezi olacak, bungalov evlerde kalacak konuklar kooperatif arazisindeki parsellerde istediklerini üreteceklerdi.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nün yurtdışı tanıtımı için İngilizce ve Almanca broşürler bastırılıp, bir de İngilizce web sitesi yaptırıldı.

Merak edenlere ve Bademler köyünü görmek isteyenlere duyurulur.

Bademler village of Izmir may be not only one of the most famous villages of Izmir,
but of the Aegean and perhaps of Turkey.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

Much has been said and written about the people of Bademler, their Turkishness has been questioned, their love and devotion to people, nature, work and production, hospitality, honesty, customs and traditions have been searched in every nook and cranny and eventually they are considered to be from the Tahtacı Nomads.

Tahtacı Nomads who migrated from Central Asia to Anatolia together with Oğuzlar were called as the Ağaçeri Nomads in history.

These Monads, which held the forested areas of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, moved to the Mediterranean and Aegean regions over time, because the Mediterranean and Aegean forests had been the leading sources of livelihood for the Venetians and pirates.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde denizciliğe önem verilip Akdeniz ve Ege kıyıları koruma altın alınınca Ağaçeri Yörüklerinin önemleri azalmış, çoğu yerleşik yaşama geçip, belli yörelerde obalar ve köyler kurmuşlardır. Ağaçeri kelimesi de zamanla Tahtacı olmuştur.

Nitekim 18. Yüzyıl kayıtlarında Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar ve Aydın’a yerleştirilen Tahtacı Cemaati’nden söz edilir. Kayıtlara göre Batı Ege’deki iki büyük Tahtacı merkezlerinden biri İzmir Narlıdere’deki Yanınyatır Ocağı, diğeri Aydın Reşadiye’deki Hacı Emirli Ocağıdır.

İzmir Narlıdere Ocağı’na bağlı 12 oymaktan en güçlü ve kalabalık olanı Çobanlı’dır.

Tahtacı Yörükleri kendilerini Emevi zulmüne karşı çıkıp, gerçek İslam’ı savunan, Caferi mezhebine bağlı Müslümanlar olarak kabul ederler. Hz. Muhammet ile Hz. Ali’ye derin saygı ve sevgi beslerler. Hacıbektaş Ocağı’yla ilgileri yoktur.

Bademler köyü Urla ilçe merkezine bağlıdır. Urla Yarımada’sının başlangıcında yer alan köyün Urla’ya uzaklığı 9, Seferihisar’a uzaklığı 10, İzmir’e uzaklığı 35 kilometredir.

Köy halkının en önemli özelliklerinden biri birlikte harekettir. Köyde kadın, erkek ayrımı yoktur. Kadınlar da erkekler kadar çalışır ve saygı görür.

Yapılması gereken işler konusunda düşünüp, öneri verenler sadece kendilerini değil bütün köyü düşünürler. En büyük rehberleri Kuran ve Kuran’ı iyi bilen, tarafsız yorumlayan, çıkar gözetmeyen yaşlılar, görmüş geçirmiş ehil kişilerdir.

İnce eleyip, sık dokumayı adet edinmiş köy halkı tekrar tekrar toplanıp, tartışır ve sonunda karar alırlar. Alınan karara bütün köylüler uyar. Köyün temizliğinden, bakımından, köy halkının huzur ve güveninden, köy çocuklarının eğitiminden bütün köy halkı sorumludur.

Bir Kooperatif kurup, köy halkının ihtiyaç duyduğu maddeleri daha ucuza alıp, satmak fikri akla ve keseye uygun geldiğinden köyde bir tüketim kooperatifi kurulur.

Köy halkından 8 kişinin ortak olduğu tüketim kooperatifinin üye sayısı ilk yılın sonunda 33 kişiye ulaşır. Ama bu henüz başlangıçtır. Bademler köyü tüketim kooperatifi büyük ilgi görmüş, komşu köyler bile alışverişlerini kooperatiften yapmaya başlamışlar.

Bademler köyünde tarlasız, topraksız köylü sayısı çoktur. Köy halkının en büyük arzularından biri onları da toprak sahibi yapmaktır. Ancak köy halkının maddi durumu yetersizdir.

Toplanıp, konuşulur. Tartışılır. Danışılır. O yıllarda durumları iyi olmayan vatandaşlarımız çalışıp, para kazanmak için Almanya’ya ve diğer Avrupa ülkelerine çalışmaya gitmektedir.

Tüketim kooperatifi 1962 yılında köy kalkınma kooperatifine dönüştürülür. Kooperatifin üye sayısı 74 olmuştur. 53 kooperatif üyesi yurtdışına çalışmaya gönderilir. Bu üyelerden söz alınmıştır, kazançlarının bir kısmını kooperatife göndereceklerdir.

Verilen sözlere sadık kalınır. ‘’Birlikten kuvvet doğar’’ sözü bir kez daha kanıtlanır.

Kalkınma Kooperatifi

Bademler köylülerinin 1962 yılında kurdukları kalkınma kooperatifi Türkiye’nin ilk kalkınma kooperatifidir ve daha sonra kurulan birçok kalkınma kooperatifine örnek olmuştur.

Küçük, az topraklı Bademler köyünün yakınlarında ekim, dikim, yapılmayan boş topraklar vardır. Yurt dışına çalışmaya gönderilen kooperatif üyelerinin gönderdikleri paralarla önce bu âtıl topraklar ile bu toprakları düzeltip, kullanmaya açacak araç, gereç, makineler alınır. Sonra, hummalı ve planlı bir çalışma ile zeytin fidanları dikilir. Amaç bir zeytinlik kurmak, ayrıca tavukçuluk ve hayvancılık yapmaktır.

Köyün ve köylülerin kazançları artmakta ve Bademler köyünün görünüşü değişmektedir. Köyde sağlık ocağı ve kütüphane kurulmuş, gazete çıkarılmış, radyo yayınları yapılmaya başlamıştır. İlçe merkezine minibüs seferleri vardır.

Genişleyen ve büyüyen kooperatif mağazasında sadece tüketim ürünleri değil köylünün su tulumbası, ilaçlama makinesi, kaliteli tohumluk, fidan gibi ihtiyaçları da karşılanmakta, toprak sahibi olmak isteyenlere taksitle toprak satışı yapılmaktadır.

Kalkınma kooperatifinin yirminci yılı olan 1982 yılına gelindiğinde Bademler, köyü 3.000 dekarlık alanı sulayan göleti, kooperatifin 780 dönümlük tarım alanı, serası, narenciye bahçesi ve zeytinyağı fabrikası ile yörenin en zengin, en gelişmiş beldesi haline gelmiştir.

Bu zaferin temelinde yatan sevgi, güven, dayanışma ve çalışmadır. İnsanlar bencillik, kıskançlık, çekememezlik gibi şeytani duygulardan arınıp, Yüce Allah’ın emirlerine uyup, kendi çıkarlarının başkalarının çıkarlarına bağlı olduğunu anlayıp, dayanışma içinde çalıştıkça Yüce Allah’ın yardım ve desteğini alırlar.

Bu yüzden Peygamber Efendimiz ‘’Rabbimiz insanın doğru çalışmasına ve niyetine bakar’’ buyurmuştur.

Çok bilinen bir diğer buyrukları da şöyledir:

‘’ İnsanın en hayırlısı insanlara en çok faydalı olan ve iyilik sağlayandır.’’

Bademler köyü kalkınma kooperatifi birçok köye örnek olmuş, İzmir yöresindeki köyler kalkınma kooperatifi kurmaya başlamışlar, 1971 yılında bir araya gelen 13 köy kooperatifi İzmir’de köy kalınma kooperatifleri (Köy Koop.) İzmir Birliği’ni oluşturmuşlardır.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Günümüzde Bademli

İzmirlilerin çoğu bilmez yıllardan beri İzmir’de satılan sebze ve meyvelerin, zeytinlerin, zeytinyağlarının, şehri süsleyen ağaçlar, çiçekler ve fidanların büyük bir kısmı Bademler köyünden gelir.

Bademler Köyü Kalkınma Kooperatifi’nin çalışmalarını yakından izleyen İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi 2010 yılından beri kooperatif ile işbirliği yapmaktadır.

2018 yılında Bademler Köyü’nde 4 milyon TL tutarındaki yeni alım sözleşmesini imzalayan da zamanki Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu, imza töreninden sonra Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nü hizmete açtı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyüİzmirlilerin merakla bekledikleri Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü, İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nin örnek bir projesiydi. Türkiye’de bir ilk ve tek olan bu proje, Bademler köyüne günübirlik gelen misafirlerin isteklerinden doğmuştu.

Doğa ve köy yaşamı özlemi çeken misafirler ‘’Keşke bizim de burada küçük bir evimiz ve küçük bir bahçemiz olsa. Temiz havada birkaç gün köy ortamında yaşayabilsek. Şehirden uzaklaşıp, başımızı dinlesek.’’ Diyorlardı. Giderek artan bu istekleri dile getirenler arasında yabancı turistler de çoktu.

Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu konuyu Kooperatif Başkanı Mehmet Sever’e açtı. Kooperatif Başkanı konuya sıcak yaklaşınca Urla Kaymakamı Önder Can’ın görüşü alındı.

Gerekli izinler alındı, çalışmalar yapıldı ve Büyükşehir Belediyesi Doğal Yaşam Köyü doğdu.

Bademler köyünde kooperatif arazisinin bir kısmı 7 milyon TL harcanarak bungalov evler, üretim parselleri, yürüyüş ve bisiklet yolları yapıldı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü bir dinlenme ve üretim merkezi olacak, bungalov evlerde kalacak konuklar kooperatif arazisindeki parsellerde istediklerini üreteceklerdi.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nün yurtdışı tanıtımı için İngilizce ve Almanca broşürler bastırılıp, bir de İngilizce web sitesi yaptırıldı.

Merak edenlere ve Bademler köyünü görmek isteyenlere duyurulur.

Bademler village of Izmir may be not only one of the most famous villages of Izmir,
but of the Aegean and perhaps of Turkey.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

Much has been said and written about the people of Bademler, their Turkishness has been questioned, their love and devotion to people, nature, work and production, hospitality, honesty, customs and traditions have been searched in every nook and cranny and eventually they are considered to be from the Tahtacı Nomads.

Tahtacı Nomads who migrated from Central Asia to Anatolia together with Oğuzlar were called as the Ağaçeri Nomads in history.

These Monads, which held the forested areas of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, moved to the Mediterranean and Aegean regions over time, because the Mediterranean and Aegean forests had been the leading sources of livelihood for the Venetians and pirates.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

 

 

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde denizciliğe önem verilip Akdeniz ve Ege kıyıları koruma altın alınınca Ağaçeri Yörüklerinin önemleri azalmış, çoğu yerleşik yaşama geçip, belli yörelerde obalar ve köyler kurmuşlardır. Ağaçeri kelimesi de zamanla Tahtacı olmuştur.

Nitekim 18. Yüzyıl kayıtlarında Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar ve Aydın’a yerleştirilen Tahtacı Cemaati’nden söz edilir. Kayıtlara göre Batı Ege’deki iki büyük Tahtacı merkezlerinden biri İzmir Narlıdere’deki Yanınyatır Ocağı, diğeri Aydın Reşadiye’deki Hacı Emirli Ocağıdır.

İzmir Narlıdere Ocağı’na bağlı 12 oymaktan en güçlü ve kalabalık olanı Çobanlı’dır.

Tahtacı Yörükleri kendilerini Emevi zulmüne karşı çıkıp, gerçek İslam’ı savunan, Caferi mezhebine bağlı Müslümanlar olarak kabul ederler. Hz. Muhammet ile Hz. Ali’ye derin saygı ve sevgi beslerler. Hacıbektaş Ocağı’yla ilgileri yoktur.

Bademler köyü Urla ilçe merkezine bağlıdır. Urla Yarımada’sının başlangıcında yer alan köyün Urla’ya uzaklığı 9, Seferihisar’a uzaklığı 10, İzmir’e uzaklığı 35 kilometredir.

Köy halkının en önemli özelliklerinden biri birlikte harekettir. Köyde kadın, erkek ayrımı yoktur. Kadınlar da erkekler kadar çalışır ve saygı görür.

Yapılması gereken işler konusunda düşünüp, öneri verenler sadece kendilerini değil bütün köyü düşünürler. En büyük rehberleri Kuran ve Kuran’ı iyi bilen, tarafsız yorumlayan, çıkar gözetmeyen yaşlılar, görmüş geçirmiş ehil kişilerdir.

İnce eleyip, sık dokumayı adet edinmiş köy halkı tekrar tekrar toplanıp, tartışır ve sonunda karar alırlar. Alınan karara bütün köylüler uyar. Köyün temizliğinden, bakımından, köy halkının huzur ve güveninden, köy çocuklarının eğitiminden bütün köy halkı sorumludur.

Bir Kooperatif kurup, köy halkının ihtiyaç duyduğu maddeleri daha ucuza alıp, satmak fikri akla ve keseye uygun geldiğinden köyde bir tüketim kooperatifi kurulur.

Köy halkından 8 kişinin ortak olduğu tüketim kooperatifinin üye sayısı ilk yılın sonunda 33 kişiye ulaşır. Ama bu henüz başlangıçtır. Bademler köyü tüketim kooperatifi büyük ilgi görmüş, komşu köyler bile alışverişlerini kooperatiften yapmaya başlamışlar.

Bademler köyünde tarlasız, topraksız köylü sayısı çoktur. Köy halkının en büyük arzularından biri onları da toprak sahibi yapmaktır. Ancak köy halkının maddi durumu yetersizdir.

Toplanıp, konuşulur. Tartışılır. Danışılır. O yıllarda durumları iyi olmayan vatandaşlarımız çalışıp, para kazanmak için Almanya’ya ve diğer Avrupa ülkelerine çalışmaya gitmektedir.

Tüketim kooperatifi 1962 yılında köy kalkınma kooperatifine dönüştürülür. Kooperatifin üye sayısı 74 olmuştur. 53 kooperatif üyesi yurtdışına çalışmaya gönderilir. Bu üyelerden söz alınmıştır, kazançlarının bir kısmını kooperatife göndereceklerdir.

Verilen sözlere sadık kalınır. ‘’Birlikten kuvvet doğar’’ sözü bir kez daha kanıtlanır.

Kalkınma Kooperatifi

Bademler köylülerinin 1962 yılında kurdukları kalkınma kooperatifi Türkiye’nin ilk kalkınma kooperatifidir ve daha sonra kurulan birçok kalkınma kooperatifine örnek olmuştur.

Küçük, az topraklı Bademler köyünün yakınlarında ekim, dikim, yapılmayan boş topraklar vardır. Yurt dışına çalışmaya gönderilen kooperatif üyelerinin gönderdikleri paralarla önce bu âtıl topraklar ile bu toprakları düzeltip, kullanmaya açacak araç, gereç, makineler alınır. Sonra, hummalı ve planlı bir çalışma ile zeytin fidanları dikilir. Amaç bir zeytinlik kurmak, ayrıca tavukçuluk ve hayvancılık yapmaktır.

Köyün ve köylülerin kazançları artmakta ve Bademler köyünün görünüşü değişmektedir. Köyde sağlık ocağı ve kütüphane kurulmuş, gazete çıkarılmış, radyo yayınları yapılmaya başlamıştır. İlçe merkezine minibüs seferleri vardır.

Genişleyen ve büyüyen kooperatif mağazasında sadece tüketim ürünleri değil köylünün su tulumbası, ilaçlama makinesi, kaliteli tohumluk, fidan gibi ihtiyaçları da karşılanmakta, toprak sahibi olmak isteyenlere taksitle toprak satışı yapılmaktadır.

Kalkınma kooperatifinin yirminci yılı olan 1982 yılına gelindiğinde Bademler, köyü 3.000 dekarlık alanı sulayan göleti, kooperatifin 780 dönümlük tarım alanı, serası, narenciye bahçesi ve zeytinyağı fabrikası ile yörenin en zengin, en gelişmiş beldesi haline gelmiştir.

Bu zaferin temelinde yatan sevgi, güven, dayanışma ve çalışmadır. İnsanlar bencillik, kıskançlık, çekememezlik gibi şeytani duygulardan arınıp, Yüce Allah’ın emirlerine uyup, kendi çıkarlarının başkalarının çıkarlarına bağlı olduğunu anlayıp, dayanışma içinde çalıştıkça Yüce Allah’ın yardım ve desteğini alırlar.

Bu yüzden Peygamber Efendimiz ‘’Rabbimiz insanın doğru çalışmasına ve niyetine bakar’’ buyurmuştur.

Çok bilinen bir diğer buyrukları da şöyledir:

‘’ İnsanın en hayırlısı insanlara en çok faydalı olan ve iyilik sağlayandır.’’

Bademler köyü kalkınma kooperatifi birçok köye örnek olmuş, İzmir yöresindeki köyler kalkınma kooperatifi kurmaya başlamışlar, 1971 yılında bir araya gelen 13 köy kooperatifi İzmir’de köy kalınma kooperatifleri (Köy Koop.) İzmir Birliği’ni oluşturmuşlardır.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Günümüzde Bademli

İzmirlilerin çoğu bilmez yıllardan beri İzmir’de satılan sebze ve meyvelerin, zeytinlerin, zeytinyağlarının, şehri süsleyen ağaçlar, çiçekler ve fidanların büyük bir kısmı Bademler köyünden gelir.

Bademler Köyü Kalkınma Kooperatifi’nin çalışmalarını yakından izleyen İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi 2010 yılından beri kooperatif ile işbirliği yapmaktadır.

2018 yılında Bademler Köyü’nde 4 milyon TL tutarındaki yeni alım sözleşmesini imzalayan da zamanki Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu, imza töreninden sonra Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nü hizmete açtı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyüİzmirlilerin merakla bekledikleri Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü, İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nin örnek bir projesiydi. Türkiye’de bir ilk ve tek olan bu proje, Bademler köyüne günübirlik gelen misafirlerin isteklerinden doğmuştu.

Doğa ve köy yaşamı özlemi çeken misafirler ‘’Keşke bizim de burada küçük bir evimiz ve küçük bir bahçemiz olsa. Temiz havada birkaç gün köy ortamında yaşayabilsek. Şehirden uzaklaşıp, başımızı dinlesek.’’ Diyorlardı. Giderek artan bu istekleri dile getirenler arasında yabancı turistler de çoktu.

Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu konuyu Kooperatif Başkanı Mehmet Sever’e açtı. Kooperatif Başkanı konuya sıcak yaklaşınca Urla Kaymakamı Önder Can’ın görüşü alındı.

Gerekli izinler alındı, çalışmalar yapıldı ve Büyükşehir Belediyesi Doğal Yaşam Köyü doğdu.

Bademler köyünde kooperatif arazisinin bir kısmı 7 milyon TL harcanarak bungalov evler, üretim parselleri, yürüyüş ve bisiklet yolları yapıldı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü bir dinlenme ve üretim merkezi olacak, bungalov evlerde kalacak konuklar kooperatif arazisindeki parsellerde istediklerini üreteceklerdi.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nün yurtdışı tanıtımı için İngilizce ve Almanca broşürler bastırılıp, bir de İngilizce web sitesi yaptırıldı.

Merak edenlere ve Bademler köyünü görmek isteyenlere duyurulur.

Bademler village of Izmir may be not only one of the most famous villages of Izmir,
but of the Aegean and perhaps of Turkey.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

Much has been said and written about the people of Bademler, their Turkishness has been questioned, their love and devotion to people, nature, work and production, hospitality, honesty, customs and traditions have been searched in every nook and cranny and eventually they are considered to be from the Tahtacı Nomads.

Tahtacı Nomads who migrated from Central Asia to Anatolia together with Oğuzlar were called as the Ağaçeri Nomads in history.

These Monads, which held the forested areas of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, moved to the Mediterranean and Aegean regions over time, because the Mediterranean and Aegean forests had been the leading sources of livelihood for the Venetians and pirates.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde denizciliğe önem verilip Akdeniz ve Ege kıyıları koruma altın alınınca Ağaçeri Yörüklerinin önemleri azalmış, çoğu yerleşik yaşama geçip, belli yörelerde obalar ve köyler kurmuşlardır. Ağaçeri kelimesi de zamanla Tahtacı olmuştur.

Nitekim 18. Yüzyıl kayıtlarında Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar ve Aydın’a yerleştirilen Tahtacı Cemaati’nden söz edilir. Kayıtlara göre Batı Ege’deki iki büyük Tahtacı merkezlerinden biri İzmir Narlıdere’deki Yanınyatır Ocağı, diğeri Aydın Reşadiye’deki Hacı Emirli Ocağıdır.

İzmir Narlıdere Ocağı’na bağlı 12 oymaktan en güçlü ve kalabalık olanı Çobanlı’dır.

Tahtacı Yörükleri kendilerini Emevi zulmüne karşı çıkıp, gerçek İslam’ı savunan, Caferi mezhebine bağlı Müslümanlar olarak kabul ederler. Hz. Muhammet ile Hz. Ali’ye derin saygı ve sevgi beslerler. Hacıbektaş Ocağı’yla ilgileri yoktur.

Bademler köyü Urla ilçe merkezine bağlıdır. Urla Yarımada’sının başlangıcında yer alan köyün Urla’ya uzaklığı 9, Seferihisar’a uzaklığı 10, İzmir’e uzaklığı 35 kilometredir.

Köy halkının en önemli özelliklerinden biri birlikte harekettir. Köyde kadın, erkek ayrımı yoktur. Kadınlar da erkekler kadar çalışır ve saygı görür.

Yapılması gereken işler konusunda düşünüp, öneri verenler sadece kendilerini değil bütün köyü düşünürler. En büyük rehberleri Kuran ve Kuran’ı iyi bilen, tarafsız yorumlayan, çıkar gözetmeyen yaşlılar, görmüş geçirmiş ehil kişilerdir.

İnce eleyip, sık dokumayı adet edinmiş köy halkı tekrar tekrar toplanıp, tartışır ve sonunda karar alırlar. Alınan karara bütün köylüler uyar. Köyün temizliğinden, bakımından, köy halkının huzur ve güveninden, köy çocuklarının eğitiminden bütün köy halkı sorumludur.

Bir Kooperatif kurup, köy halkının ihtiyaç duyduğu maddeleri daha ucuza alıp, satmak fikri akla ve keseye uygun geldiğinden köyde bir tüketim kooperatifi kurulur.

Köy halkından 8 kişinin ortak olduğu tüketim kooperatifinin üye sayısı ilk yılın sonunda 33 kişiye ulaşır. Ama bu henüz başlangıçtır. Bademler köyü tüketim kooperatifi büyük ilgi görmüş, komşu köyler bile alışverişlerini kooperatiften yapmaya başlamışlar.

Bademler köyünde tarlasız, topraksız köylü sayısı çoktur. Köy halkının en büyük arzularından biri onları da toprak sahibi yapmaktır. Ancak köy halkının maddi durumu yetersizdir.

Toplanıp, konuşulur. Tartışılır. Danışılır. O yıllarda durumları iyi olmayan vatandaşlarımız çalışıp, para kazanmak için Almanya’ya ve diğer Avrupa ülkelerine çalışmaya gitmektedir.

Tüketim kooperatifi 1962 yılında köy kalkınma kooperatifine dönüştürülür. Kooperatifin üye sayısı 74 olmuştur. 53 kooperatif üyesi yurtdışına çalışmaya gönderilir. Bu üyelerden söz alınmıştır, kazançlarının bir kısmını kooperatife göndereceklerdir.

Verilen sözlere sadık kalınır. ‘’Birlikten kuvvet doğar’’ sözü bir kez daha kanıtlanır.

Kalkınma Kooperatifi

Bademler köylülerinin 1962 yılında kurdukları kalkınma kooperatifi Türkiye’nin ilk kalkınma kooperatifidir ve daha sonra kurulan birçok kalkınma kooperatifine örnek olmuştur.

Küçük, az topraklı Bademler köyünün yakınlarında ekim, dikim, yapılmayan boş topraklar vardır. Yurt dışına çalışmaya gönderilen kooperatif üyelerinin gönderdikleri paralarla önce bu âtıl topraklar ile bu toprakları düzeltip, kullanmaya açacak araç, gereç, makineler alınır. Sonra, hummalı ve planlı bir çalışma ile zeytin fidanları dikilir. Amaç bir zeytinlik kurmak, ayrıca tavukçuluk ve hayvancılık yapmaktır.

Köyün ve köylülerin kazançları artmakta ve Bademler köyünün görünüşü değişmektedir. Köyde sağlık ocağı ve kütüphane kurulmuş, gazete çıkarılmış, radyo yayınları yapılmaya başlamıştır. İlçe merkezine minibüs seferleri vardır.

Genişleyen ve büyüyen kooperatif mağazasında sadece tüketim ürünleri değil köylünün su tulumbası, ilaçlama makinesi, kaliteli tohumluk, fidan gibi ihtiyaçları da karşılanmakta, toprak sahibi olmak isteyenlere taksitle toprak satışı yapılmaktadır.

Kalkınma kooperatifinin yirminci yılı olan 1982 yılına gelindiğinde Bademler, köyü 3.000 dekarlık alanı sulayan göleti, kooperatifin 780 dönümlük tarım alanı, serası, narenciye bahçesi ve zeytinyağı fabrikası ile yörenin en zengin, en gelişmiş beldesi haline gelmiştir.

Bu zaferin temelinde yatan sevgi, güven, dayanışma ve çalışmadır. İnsanlar bencillik, kıskançlık, çekememezlik gibi şeytani duygulardan arınıp, Yüce Allah’ın emirlerine uyup, kendi çıkarlarının başkalarının çıkarlarına bağlı olduğunu anlayıp, dayanışma içinde çalıştıkça Yüce Allah’ın yardım ve desteğini alırlar.

Bu yüzden Peygamber Efendimiz ‘’Rabbimiz insanın doğru çalışmasına ve niyetine bakar’’ buyurmuştur.

Çok bilinen bir diğer buyrukları da şöyledir:

‘’ İnsanın en hayırlısı insanlara en çok faydalı olan ve iyilik sağlayandır.’’

Bademler köyü kalkınma kooperatifi birçok köye örnek olmuş, İzmir yöresindeki köyler kalkınma kooperatifi kurmaya başlamışlar, 1971 yılında bir araya gelen 13 köy kooperatifi İzmir’de köy kalınma kooperatifleri (Köy Koop.) İzmir Birliği’ni oluşturmuşlardır.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Günümüzde Bademli

İzmirlilerin çoğu bilmez yıllardan beri İzmir’de satılan sebze ve meyvelerin, zeytinlerin, zeytinyağlarının, şehri süsleyen ağaçlar, çiçekler ve fidanların büyük bir kısmı Bademler köyünden gelir.

Bademler Köyü Kalkınma Kooperatifi’nin çalışmalarını yakından izleyen İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi 2010 yılından beri kooperatif ile işbirliği yapmaktadır.

2018 yılında Bademler Köyü’nde 4 milyon TL tutarındaki yeni alım sözleşmesini imzalayan da zamanki Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu, imza töreninden sonra Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nü hizmete açtı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyüİzmirlilerin merakla bekledikleri Bademler Doğal Yaşam Köyü, İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nin örnek bir projesiydi. Türkiye’de bir ilk ve tek olan bu proje, Bademler köyüne günübirlik gelen misafirlerin isteklerinden doğmuştu.

Doğa ve köy yaşamı özlemi çeken misafirler ‘’Keşke bizim de burada küçük bir evimiz ve küçük bir bahçemiz olsa. Temiz havada birkaç gün köy ortamında yaşayabilsek. Şehirden uzaklaşıp, başımızı dinlesek.’’ Diyorlardı. Giderek artan bu istekleri dile getirenler arasında yabancı turistler de çoktu.

Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanı Aziz Kocaoğlu konuyu Kooperatif Başkanı Mehmet Sever’e açtı. Kooperatif Başkanı konuya sıcak yaklaşınca Urla Kaymakamı Önder Can’ın görüşü alındı.

Gerekli izinler alındı, çalışmalar yapıldı ve Büyükşehir Belediyesi Doğal Yaşam Köyü doğdu.

Bademler köyünde kooperatif arazisinin bir kısmı 7 milyon TL harcanarak bungalov evler, üretim parselleri, yürüyüş ve bisiklet yolları yapıldı.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü bir dinlenme ve üretim merkezi olacak, bungalov evlerde kalacak konuklar kooperatif arazisindeki parsellerde istediklerini üreteceklerdi.

Doğal Yaşam Köyü’nün yurtdışı tanıtımı için İngilizce ve Almanca broşürler bastırılıp, bir de İngilizce web sitesi yaptırıldı.

Merak edenlere ve Bademler köyünü görmek isteyenlere duyurulur.

Bademler village of Izmir may be not only one of the most famous villages of Izmir,
but of the Aegean and perhaps of Turkey.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

Much has been said and written about the people of Bademler, their Turkishness has been questioned, their love and devotion to people, nature, work and production, hospitality, honesty, customs and traditions have been searched in every nook and cranny and eventually they are considered to be from the Tahtacı Nomads.

Tahtacı Nomads who migrated from Central Asia to Anatolia together with Oğuzlar were called as the Ağaçeri Nomads in history.

These Monads, which held the forested areas of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, moved to the Mediterranean and Aegean regions over time, because the Mediterranean and Aegean forests had been the leading sources of livelihood for the Venetians and pirates.

It is the people of the village who have made the tiny, less landed, poor Bademler, a rich and developed village. They worked together and beat the bushes in a surprising unity and solidarity and they trusted and supported each other and achieved great works.

When importance was given to maritime and the protection of the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts during the Ottoman Empire, the importance of the Ağaçeri Nomads was diminished, most of them settled down and established nomad camping sides and villages in certain regions. The word Ağaçeri had also become Tahtacı in time.

In fact, in the 18th century archives, it was mentioned that the Tahtacı Communion settled in Teke, Menteşe Hüdavendigar and Aydın. According to the archives, one of the two major Tahtacı centers in the Western Aegean was the Yanınyatır Society in İzmir Narlıdere and the other was the Hacı Emirli Society in Aydın Reşadiye.

Çobanlı was the strongest and most crowded of the 12 groups connected to the Izmir Narlıdere Society.

The Tahtacı Nomads considered themselves as Muslims who opposed to the Umayyad persecution and advocated true Islam and belonged to the Caferi sect. They had deep respect and love for Hz. Muhammad and Hz. Ali. They had nothing to do with the Hacıbektaş Society.

History of the village

Bademler village is connected to Urla district center. The village, located at the beginning of the Urla Peninsula, is 9 kilometers away from Urla, 10 kilometers away from Seferihisar and 35 kilometers away from İzmir.

One of the most important features of the village people is to act in unison. There is no discrimination between men and women in the village. Women work and are respected as much as men.

Those who think about the work to be done and give suggestions think not only of

themselves but the whole village. The greatest guides are the Qur’an and the old and worldly-wide people who know the Qur’an well, interpret it impartially, and do not look after their own benefits.

The village people, who are used to go over the matter with a fine-toothed comb, gather again and again and discuss and finally decide. All villagers obey the decision. The whole village people are responsible for the cleanliness and care of the village, the peace and security of the village people, the education of the village children.

Since the idea of establishing a cooperative for buying and

selling the items needed by the villagers was cheaper, a consumption cooperative is established in the village.

The number of members of the consumption cooperative, which is comprised of 8 people from the villagers, has reached to 33 at the end of the first year. But this was just the beginning. The consumption cooperative of Bademler village attracted great attention, even neighboring villages have started their shopping from the cooperative.

The number of peasants without fields and lands in Bademler village was high. One of the greatest desires of the village people was to make them landowners. However, the financial situation of the village people was insufficient.

It was gathered and spoken, discussed, consulted. Our citizens, who were not in good condition in those years, went to work in Germany and other European countries to earn money.

The consumption cooperative was turned into a village development cooperative in the year 1962. The number of members of the cooperative was 74. 53 cooperative members were sent to work abroad. These members promised that they would send some of their earnings to the cooperative.

People were faithful and adhered to the promises made. The saying ”Union makes strength” was proven once more.

Development Cooperative

The development cooperative established in 1962 by Bademler peasants is Turkey’s first development cooperative and it became a model to many development cooperatives founded later.

There were empty lands near the small, less grounded Bademler village where no

sowing and planting were made. With the money sent by the members of the cooperative who were sent abroad to work, first of all these idle lands and tools, equipment and machines that would be used during the correction of these lands and put into use were purchased. Then, olive trees are planted with a planned work at high pressure. The aim is to establish an olive grove as well as poultry and stockbreeding.

The earnings of the village and the villagers increased and the appearance of the village of Bademler was changed. A health center and a library were established in the village, newspapers were issued and radio broadcasts started to be made. There were minibus services to the district center.

In the expanding and growing cooperative store, not only consumer goods, but also the needs of the villagers such as water bags, spraying machines, quality seeds and seedlings were sold, and land was sold in installments to those who wanted to own land.

That is why our Prophet said, “Our Lord looks at the correct work and intention of man”.

Another well-known imperative is:
“The best of man is the one who does favor and is beneficial to people.”

Bademler village development cooperative has been an example for many villages and the villages in the Izmir region have started to establish a development cooperative and in the year 1971 13 village cooperatives came together and founded Izmir Village Development Cooperatives Union in Izmir (Köy Koop.)

Bademler Today

Most of the residents of Izmir don’t know that the most part of the vegetables and fruits, olives, olive oils that are sold in the city and the trees, flowers and saplings that adorn the city for many years are coming from Bademler Village.

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, which closely monitors the work of the Bademler Village Development Cooperative, has been cooperating with the cooperative since 2010.

In the year 2018 the former Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu opened Bademler Wild Life Village after having signed a new purchase contract amounting to 4 million TL in Bademler Village and after the signing ceremony.

Wildlife Village

Bademler Natural Life Village, which Izmir residents had been waiting for impatiently, was an exemplary project of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. This project was a first and only in Turkey and was born from the desire of visitors coming daily to the Bademler Village.

The guests longing for nature and village life said, “we wish we had a small house and a small garden here. If we could live in the village environment for a few days in the fresh air.

If we may be able to walk away from the city and rest our heads.” Foreign tourists were also among those expressing these increasing demands.

Metropolitan Mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu brought up the matter with Mehmet Sever, the Cooperative President. When the Chairman of the Cooperative approached the issue, the opinion of Urla District Governor Önder Can was received.

The necessary permits were obtained, studies were carried out, and the Metropolitan Municipality Natural Life Village was born.

On a part of the cooperative land in Bademler village was spent 7 million TL, bungalow houses, production plots, walking and cycling routes were built.

The Natural Life Village would be a recreation and production center, and the guests staying in the bungalow houses would produce what they want on the parcels in the cooperative land.

English and German brochures were printed and an English website was built for the promotion of the Natural Life Village abroad.

It is announced to those who are curious and want to see Bademler Village.