Following the openings of Hrant Dink and Ahmet Kaya parks last year,  BDP’s Akdeniz Municipality in Mersin has on May 6 opened Yýlmaz Güney Park with a ceremony which was attended by Yýlmaz Güney’s wife Fatoþ Güney, BDP Diyarbakýr MP Altan Tan, Hakkari MP Adil Kurt as well as many artists and representatives of non-governmental organizations.

Making a speech at the opening ceremony, Akdeniz Mayor Mehmet Fazýl Türk said that “It is a conscientious, humanitarian and historic obligation to keep the creators of values alive. We will continue to perform our duty to not to allow socially prominent artists and intellectuals be forgotten.”

“We lived a shock one day, because we started to see ourselves in his films”, said BDP Diyarbakýr MP Altan Tan referring to great artist Yýlmaz Güney.

Yýlmaz Güney’s wife Fatoþ Güney also made a short speech and remarked that bans on Yýlmaz Güney are still alive despite the 27 years passed since his death. Güney said the followings; “I recognized Kurds, their identity and language owing to Yýlmaz Güney. He was a Kurd, like Ahmet Kaya, and Hrant Dink was an Armenian but they were Turk at the same time. They sided with all the oppressed peoples and disregarded identities in the world.”