ŞIRINCE'S HOPE TURNED INTO THE DISAPPOINTMENT

              3 weeks ago, people were getting nervous and became stressful due to the approaching Day of Reckoning which is 21th December 2012 at 13.11 pm. Of course, this was valid solely for who believed this theory. Plus, people’s belief maket hem take measures against the doomsday. The precautions changed from person to person. Some people built shelters for theirselves, stored nutriments such as canned food, biscuits that are not decomposed easily or stayed in Bugarach,France or Şirince, Turkey. As these two towns would survive after the Day of Reckoning according to Maya community. However, Bugarach and Şirince were predicted to be invaded by so many tourists who came from various parts of world that experts said that if our predictions came true, it looked like in Şirince and Bugarach the doomsday would had already happened before the last day.

HOW ŞIRINCE CAME OVER WITH THIS SITUATION THAT HAD NEVER BEEN EXPERIENCED?

              A weeks before the last day, Şirince’s public started their preparations as it was calculated between 15.000 - 20.000 tourists would come there. They increased the accommodation capacity from 250 to 500, all supermarkets, hotels, restaurants held up food stuffs. What’s more, “The Hot Maya Chocolate “ was prepared and the t-shirts having Maya calendar on it was published. Both were ready to be offered for sale. Except the decorated streets, Headman Niyazi Aysel and tradesmen also adjusted their concepts for  the doomsday. For instance, all food names icluding our traditional foods was changed for a while and attracted the visitors. Here is the Day of Reckoning Menu:
-Doomsday Soup
-Fire of Pilau
-Paradise Kebab
-Dessert of Forbidden Apple and closure with Last Breat Tena

THE UNEXPECTED END
               Contrary to expectations, on 21th December 2012 nothing happened and Şirince community couldn’t welcome the expected number of visitors. This situation was mostly upset shopkeepers. As all their appetites, preliminary works, hopes turned into the disappointment. It did not only dash shopkeeper’s hope but also disappoint gendarmerie and the press. The press had been waiting for this day for a days to catch interesting pictures of crowd. On the other hand, gendarmerie sent 400 men in advance the possibility of congestion. Nevertheless, except some religious groups and roughly 200-300 tourists nobody turned up there. In a word, Şirince’s unforgettable day which had been waited since the beginning of 2012 ended with disappointment. On the contrary Şirince society, the ones who had faith in this theory weeped for joy after 13.11 pm.

THE CRYPTIC WORLD

              The most interesting side that I cannot get it is while these things are going through, how come these people could believe any theory which was not scientifically proved? How this news stayed at the top news of the world for a weeks? Are the society really interested in these kinds of event? or Are they sick and tired of common occasions such as global warming, economic depression? All I can say in response to these questions is sometimes it’s hard to predict people’s reaction to the events. They can find a case logical in their current psychology even if this case won’t seem realistic after a while.