Doğançay, Mersin

Cultural Activities

• With the arrival of spring, the villagers collectively perform folk dances, also cook some traditional meals and distribute it to residents of another villagers or guests from all around Mersin.
• During these festivals, they also discuss current political issues and their future plans about farming as well as entertainment.

  Fruits and vegetables grown in Doğançay

• Other usage area of the grapes is wine industry. At the beginning of, mostly, September, harvest season completely opens. Grapes turn into wine at considerable rate in the village.

Notable people

• Nuri Yüce is literature and turcology professor who wrote dozens of articles and books about local languages and other literature topics.
• Mustafa Keşli is a poet whose nickname is “Cıncık”. He had gathered his poems in a book and had published it.