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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Ugur Akinci

May 13

3 min read

TURKEY | IZMIR | LIFE

A Unique City That’s in Love with Her Mayors

The amazing Monument of Mayors displays Izmir’s civic pride and celebrates her history of public service

Izmir, Turkey — **Bornova, Izmir**. By BerkeKayalarr — Source, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=101400741

How many cities do you know that celebrate their 50-year's worth of mayors, going all the way back to the 1980s?

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