ANCESTORS OF ROOTED VARLI FAMILY
The father of the grand Doğan Nadi Varlı, known as Hancı Nadir Varlı (Hotelier Nadir Varlı), was a hotelier in Fethiye. Until the Great Fethiye Earthquake in 1957, his hotel named Dutluhan was located in the centre of Fethiye, where the Fethiye Fish and Vegetable Market is located nowadays. Varlı Family is a well-known family with reliable and well-educated family members since those years.
Shoe Seller Doğan Nadi Varlı, the son of Hotelier Nadir Varlı, who is the second generation in Fethiye, is known as Shoe Seller from the 1940s to the 1990s. Varlı Kundura was his store and everyone living in Fethiye in those years knew that Varlı branded shoes were the leading shoes in the Fethiye market. Everyone remembers Doğan as a gentle, stylish person who wore different suits every day in his daily life in Fethiye.