
Adana Metropolitan Municipality reopened the Camili Mound Martyrs' Memorial to visitors. Adana Governor Yavuz Selim Köşger, Adana Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Zeydan Karalar, 5th Corps and Garrison Commander Major General Mehmet Özeren, Adana Police Chief Ahmet Hakan Arıkan, deputies, politicians, district mayors, historians, the provincial mufti and Adana residents attended the ceremony held for the reopening of the memorial to visitors on January 6, Adana's Liberation Day.
Adana Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Zeydan Karalar made a speech at the reopening of the Martyrs' Memorial on January 5, Adana's Liberation Day, and touched upon the importance of the Camili region and the Memorial, and said that historians told us that it was a region Turkified by the Ramazanoğulları 800 years ago.
President Zeydan Karalar continued as follows: “There are approximately 120 thousand Armenians who returned to Adana and the region with the French after World War I. Some of them committed massacres in Adana. The martyrs’ cemetery that we have reopened to visitors is located at the spot where one of these massacres took place. I would like to thank our Governor for his important efforts to reopen the Camili Mound Martyrs’ Cemetery to visitors.”
Following the ceremony at the martyrs' cemetery, soup was served as a tradition at the mansion named after Şeyh Cemil Nardalı, who played an important role in Adana's liberation struggle.