It has been revealed that the fenced-in lot where once stood the Y\u0131lmaz G\u00fcney Movie Theatre in the city Batman, Turkey, demolished shortly after a suspicious fire in 2017 which made it unusable, will be converted into a decorative pond and added to the limits of the adjacent Atat\u00fcrk Park.<\/p>\n
Following discussions on social media by individuals who witnessed the works the day before last, it has been discovered that a decorative pond is to be built in the vacant lot as per the decision of the trustee Hulusi \u015eahin, according to information from Mesopotamia Agency (MA) sources within the municipality. Metin Yoksu of MA has reported that excavation work has begun and the fence separating the lot from Atat\u00fcrk Park has been removed and pipes have been laid in the excavated area.<\/p>\n
A SIGNIFICANT PREVIOUS ASSET FOR BATMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n Having made considerable contributions to Batman\u2019s culture and arts scene since its opening, the Y\u0131lmaz G\u00fcney Movie Theatre had become an important asset to the city in a very short time.<\/p>\n Though demolished by the then-trustee Ertu\u011f \u015eevket Aksoy in the wake of a suspicious fire, the theatre remained on the agenda through discussions on whether or not to rebuild.<\/p>\n In a survey administered by the trustee administration, the people had been asked if \u201ca mosque or movie theatre should be built in its place or it should be left as a recreational area\u201d yet the survey had been scrapped when protests from the people in favour of a movie theatre had weighed in as the prevalent answer.<\/p>\n CITY COUNCIL HAD VOTED FOR RECONSTRUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n The co-Mayors Mehmet Demir and Song\u00fcl Korkmaz who were elected with 66% of the vote in the March 31, 2019 elections have brought the issue – one of their campaign promises – to the first assembly of the city council which had decided for the reconstruction of the Y\u0131lmaz G\u00fcney Movie Theatre in its former place.<\/p>\n However; the project could not be tendered due to the severe debt left by the previous trustee Ertu\u011f \u015eevket Aksoy and the reconstruction was pushed into the 2020 budget. The new trustee, Hulusi \u015eahin, who was appointed on March 23, 2020 had shelved the project yet again.<\/p>\n Y\u0131lmaz G\u00fcney\u2019s daughter Elif G\u00fcney P\u00fct\u00fcn had recently brought up the theatre again, calling for a rebuild.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hulusi \u015eahin, the incumbent trustee, is having a decorative pond built on the site of Y\u0131lmaz G\u00fcney Movie Theatre which had remained vacant since his predecessor had it demolished<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2753],"tags":[976,2767,2803],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cases","tag-batman","tag-cinema","tag-trustee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}