This picture and its mates I took during a rambling walk where I first crossed the river from my hotel, found myself in an area with furniture shops, then headed into a part of town where a new hotel annex megastore stressed the modern character of that part, then gradually found myself in areas with low and older houses. I then crossed railroad tracks, visited an area with small houses, with an adjacent park. I headed back to the centre, crossing the tracks again, then hopped on a tram to another part of town.


In the park there is this monument for (information from a viewer, thanks) Yunus Emre, about whom the Wikipedia has amongst other things: "Yunus Emre (1240?–1321?) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Veled, one of the first known Turkish poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia. This is also the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets, folk-songs, fairy tales, riddles (tekerlemeler), and proverbs."