On a central roundabout stood this unfriendly warrior. It's Kutalmışoğlu Süleiman Şah who, in 1082 conquered Tarsus, and procedeed to conquer Adana in 1083.
The city has lots of bronzes of historical figures (and some non-historical ones).
After Battle of Manzikert (26th August 1071) Great Seljuk Governer Alparslan ordered his generals the conquest of Anatolia.
Suleiman Shah was the Seljuk ruler of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate in Anatolia from 1077 until his death in 1086 . Before rising to power, he conquered the Byzantine cities of Nicaea (Iznik) and Nicomedia (Izmit) in 1075. He succeeded his father Kutalmish as the ruler of the Anatolian possessions of the Great Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah I. Kutalmish was the cousen of Alparslan (father of Malik Shah I).