BDP Akdeniz Municipality in Mersin continues to carry the names of public intellectuals, writers and artists to future. The name of Yýlmaz Güney will be given to a building complex if the motion by mayor M. Fazýl Türk is approved by the council.

Following the initiatives to cherish the names of folk poet Ahmet Kaya who lost his life in exile and Armenian journalist Hrant Dink who was murdered, well-known artist and director Yýlmaz Güney’s name will be kept alive in Mersin in a social complex which is currently under construction and expected to be opened in May or June of this year.

By the proposal of Mediterranean City Council, Akdeniz Mayor M. Fazýl Türk presented a motion to the Parliament for giving Yýlmaz Güney’s name to the complex.

BDP’s Akdeniz Municipality on 8 May 2011 opened a park and monument in memory of Armenian-Turkish journalist and writer Hrant Dink, editor of bilingual Agos newspaper, who was murdered as a result of an armed attack on 19 January 2007.

The Municipality also keeps the name of Ahmet Kaya alive in a park which was opened on 6 June 2011 within the scope of municipality’s projects on the basis of a participatory, transparent, democratic, ecological and gender-libertarian administration.