Metropolitan Municipality Mayor and People's Alliance Bursa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Alinur Aktaş, who announced his projects for the new era with the aim of a 'Living Bursa' with its art, culture, young and old, said: "In addition to physical works, it will also increase the social life of the city people with colorful and rich projects carried out in social and cultural terms." We made the transformation. Bursa is a city famous for its national and international festivals that have been going on for many years. In addition to our brands such as Bursa Festival and Altın Karagöz Folk Dance Festival, we have accomplished important works in this field with new values, especially the Gastronomy Festival in the past period. "We will further enrich our existing festivals in the coming period and add festivals where we will work on special themes to our festival calendar," he said.
Stating that the need for venues where the programs will be held has increased, Mayor Aktaş said that they are lucky to live in a city where such enjoyable events are needed.
Stating that they also had the opportunity to undertake mega projects to meet these needs, Mayor Aktaş said, “We are not among those who do not understand what a mega project means and cannot create a qualified event venue in 20 years. During this period, we are bringing two large congress and cultural centers to our city. We are carrying out the first of these in Yıldırım district, to the east of our city. We are offering to our city a modern facility with a capacity of 800 people, with a main hall that will have the infrastructure for the performance of all performing arts, as well as exhibition areas, be-to-be and workshop areas. We are building the second important work in this field in Nilüfer district. It hasn't been done for 20 years. We will do that too. "Our facility, which will have a main hall with a capacity of 800 people and other additions, will make significant contributions to the cultural and artistic life of our city thanks to the events to be held throughout the year," he said.
Reminding that they removed the negative impact on the city skyline by demolishing the Çelik Palas annex hotel structure, which had been idle for many years, Mayor Aktaş said that now they will put this area into service as a socio-cultural center with uses created with an innovative approach that citizens of all ages will be proud of. Stating that Çekirge Teras Social and Cultural Facility will bring life to Bursa, Aktaş said, “With our project, which is currently under construction and will be completed within the next year, we will include the 'Modern Art Museum, Smart Urbanization Innovation Center, Lifelong Health Center, sports fields, library, E-sports. "We will offer contemporary uses such as the Digital Youth Center and culture-art workshops to the service of our people, accompanied by a panoramic view of Bursa," he said.
In the meantime, Mayor Aktaş stated that they will create areas where women can socialize as well as have a healthy life, and stated that they will create 'Women's Healthy Life Centers' in this context, and said, "As the metropolitan municipality, we continue to bring sports to people of all ages all over our city with our sports facilities. We are bringing a new sports complex to the western region of our city in line with the increasing demands. "With the 'Western Sports Complex', which includes branches such as football field, swimming pool, indoor sports, tennis and squash, we will meet an important need of the region," he said.
MOTOSPOR COMPLEX AND MUDANYA WATER SPORTS CENTER
Stating that they have observed that the demand for motor sports such as off-road, enduro, drift, tuning and moto cross is increasing day by day in Bursa, Mayor Aktaş said, "We will bring the 'Motosports Complex' to our city, which is needed for these sports to be done regularly, safely and in a qualified way." We will make money in this period. We aim to highlight our beaches with water sports. "We will bring 'Mudanya Water Sports Center' to our city in order to develop our sailing, canoeing, diving and similar water sports, to gather the clubs serving in these branches under one roof and to train champion athletes in these branches," he said.
Stating that the World Nomad Games held in Iznik in the past period attracted great interest from the citizens, Mayor Aktaş said, "The 'Ancestor Sports Camp Center', which will serve as a training camp for traditional sports such as archery, horseback riding, mass wrestling and matrak, has been opened by the Iznik Lake." "We are taking it," he said.
