By far the most crowded guest room in the village was Nureddin's which lay beyond the main road. This did not open in the autumn, because, after a disastrous harvest, no one could afford fuel, and there was much complaining about this. In January, enough fuel was contributed from various sources, and the room was put into use both as a social centre and as a shop. Here again the core of the regular attendance was the lineage, none of whom, after it was opened, went anywhere else, except rarely to play cards; but almost the whole of the Lower quarter was to be found in this guest room. It was not a grand building, and the village leaders never came, but those who did included heads of households which were not on speaking terms with each other, and many who were not related to each other or the owner. Ömer (G) often came here in preference to sitting with his agnates in Zeynel's (G) guest room, and so did the adult sons of a pair of brothers who themselves preferred Zeynel's
Only four grown men in the village segment cut off by the road did not attend this guest room, apart from Hüseyn (F) who had his own. One never went to a guest room at all, though his own small guest room was not in use, and one went if at all to Hüseyn's. Two others went regularly to Zeynel's.
Only Zeynel's (G) guest room remains. His son was the headman during my stay, but except on one or two special occasions this made no difference to the composition of the group that met there. Only Ahmet (K), in his role as village scribe, went there frequently on official business, because the headman himself could neither read nor write. Only one of Zeynel's close agnates, Ömer (G), ever attended, and then irregularly. Two