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His name is  Tugrul Kutucu... In 2002 he was 72 years old. He was the last representative of a long tradition of Kusadasi's region: the tannery. The last tanner in exercise of his profession, and consequently, the owner of the Kusadasi's last tannery...	HISTORY OF THE TANNERY IN KUSADASI'S REGION In Kusadasi's region, the history of the tannery goes back  up to ephèsiens. The autochthons of the villages of Kusadasi's bay were their back children.  As for the Turkish which seized the region in the 14th.  century, they too, were excellent tanners in the Asian and Mesopotamian traditions.  According to the official registers, in the 1890's, there were 22 tanneries to Kusadasi. In 1933 there were  4 in Kusadasi and  only one in Selçuk (near Ephesus ruins). One worked the leather by the sea, in the natural salt water. With the urbanization, tanneries were obliged to move three times before settling down definitively, in 1968 , there where they are at present ,   on the road which drives of Kusadasi to Kirazli village.    In the 1960's, to be able to face the industrialization, they endowed partially of machines. But it was in vain because the big factories bought almost totality of the leather which tanneries needed as raw material.  The tannery of Mister Tugrul Kutucu, last one of its generation, will live henceforth in the galleries of the Kusadasi's virtual Museum.
He produced a named vaketa leather sort. It was the raw material used by  Bodrum's coordonniers  to make their light sandals. He had two threads. Nobody of them thought of immortalizing the domestic profession. Mister Kutucu considered, so , as the last representative of his profession to Kusadasi.
He had  11 - 12  years when the husband of his sister taught him the profession,  there is about sixty years.  In this time, Greeks, descendants of ephèsiens,  lived  with Turkish to Kusadasi. They were excellent artisans of father in son. The Turkish tanners and ephèsiens competed in the art of the tannery.
Later, at the end of the first world war, Greek of Kusadasi took refuge in greece and the tannery continued thanks to Turkish.  According to Mister Kutucu, until 1960 everything made in the hand. This year there, in front of the industrialization, some tanners grouped together to buy machines. But it has not is enough to compete the industrial production. Especially since they had of plue besides the evil to get itself some raw material because the manufacturers bought almost totality of the leather of ox and veal.

DIFFERENT  PHASES OF LEATHER TREATMENT (Click to enlarge the pictures)