In front of the building of the metropolitan government stand a monument, called "The first bullet" for a Hasan Tahsin. In the Wikipedia one can read: "Hasan Tahsin Receb (born Osman Nevres ) (1888 Salonica - May 15, 1919 İzmir) was an Ottoman Turkish Turkish (sic) nationalist journalist. Being a member of the Ottoman special Organization, he unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the Buxton Brothers: Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton and Charles Roden Buxton in Romania during World War I.

He is said to have been the first to open fire on the Greek soldiers that landed at Smyrna (present day Izmir) on May 15, 1919 in the opening act of the Greek occupation of more than three years that extended over a large part of western Anatolia, as well as of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).

At the time of his death he was publishing and writing for the newspaper "Hukuk-u Beşer" (Ottoman Turkish for "Human Rights")"