People's Alliance Foça Mayor candidate Taner Acar, who continues his election campaign without slowing down with only a few days left before the March 31 local elections, said that until the 1980s, Foça was a rising star in terms of tourism, but the point brought by CHP mayors was not very heartbreaking. told.
Acar stated that although Foça has very important riches, it does not receive the share it deserves from tourism, and that daily tourism does not contribute significantly to the district economy.
Acar said, “Foça has turned into a city that appeals to a mass of people who are of no use to anyone other than ice cream parlors and snack shops. "Even on our prestigious street, places serving tourism have closed," he said.
Presidential Candidate Taner Acar, who is a fan of Foça, said, "When we look at it now, we are a district of perhaps thirty thousand people, and our population reaches five hundred thousand in the summer, and with these construction works, our population will reach five hundred thousand, but we will still continue on our way with the investments we have received on a scale of thirty thousand." People will continue to worship on the same road, in the same park, in the same mosques, but somehow we cannot accommodate that growth; We cannot include it in our plans and programmes. "Our problems partly stem from this," he said.
Underlining that they have very important assets in terms of tourism, Acar said, “We have Kozbeyli, a legacy from the Ottomans. It is a village with an incredibly beautiful geographical structure. We are a village that needs to explain itself and introduce itself. Kozbeyli says 'introduce me to the world'. We have Foça stories from 5 thousand years of history that we can tell to the whole world about their experiences during the population exchange. Because Foça cannot explain this, it will either see itself as a side element of the industry, that is, it will serve the people who come to the factories there. Or it will set out to become a tourism district that serves the whole world. "We believe that the second one will be more important," he said.
Underlining that they will immediately implement tourism-related projects as soon as they are elected, Acar added, "Our district will get its fair share of the tourism cake."
