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etropolitan areas of Turkey with more than two million inhabitants, became a city which is aimed to be transformed into a “Brand City.” We have recently interviewed, Governor of Bursa. The interview follows:

mation. So, we put emphasis on upgrading Bursa in terms of major quality standards. Bursa is a fruitful city giving birth to worldwide brands such as its historic monuments, textiles, towels, chestnut, peach, fig and some other products. Bursa has Geographical Indication (GI), a sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin .The use of a GI act as a certification that the product possesses certain qualities or enjoys a certain reputation, due to its geographical origin. Whenever brand cities of the world are mentioned, New York, Paris and Dubai come to mind. However, Bursa, being able to give a peace of mind to its visitors, differs itself from them considerably. Hagiasophia Church in Nicaea town. | Page 7

Tourism in the context of progress and the Bursa Model DUBAI-For 21 years, Arabian Travel Market has provided an ideal place to do face to face business with companies from around the globe. Arabian Travel Market 2015 promises to be bigger and better than ever before. This year, our spotlight theme is Family Travel. There will also be a focus on Travel Technology Business Travel, Luxury and Wellness. | Page 16

Arab tourists and investors prefer Bursa

BURSA-The recent increase in Arab tourists in Turkey has brought along with it a peak of interest by tourism operators from the region. Some of the largest chain hotel operators spanning from Kuwait to Dubai are now out on the hunt for locations particularly in Bursa. | Page 20

“Ulu Sehir Bursa” was a major topic in ITB, International Tourism Fair Berlin

Bursa Medical Park Hospital starts health tourism Health tourism, which is undertaken by Bursa governor, local governments and health organizations is yielding tangible results. It seems that there is an important development for 200 foreigner patients in private hospital Medical Park. | Page 13

Every brand, product, and value has an essence, an ore. The essence of tourism must be the natural, historical, and humane richness and diversity. In this respect, both Turkey and Bursa is very lucky. For the thousands of years, Turkey is the flow point where East and West connect and the center of the greatest empires where the sun has risen. Bursa is the founding city of Ottoman Empire that is the grand representative of our civilization.However, when the advantages offered by time and place are not made use of or when the ore is not processed properly, a value, a brand does not appear in the real sense. | Page 6

Town of Yıldırım hosts many sacred values It’s a central district in the east part of Bursa. Gokdere is border between the districts Osmangazi and Yıldırım. This district was founded in 1987, when Bursa became a metropolitan city. Yıldırım is rich of sacred and historical values. Some titles are given below: The Kulliya of Emir Sultan It is located on a hill in the outskirts of Uludağ, in a quarter, which is also named as Emir Sultan. | Page 14

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Rich potential for tourism in Nilufer Page 10

BEBKA promotes Bursa, Eskisehir and Bilecik provinces Page 16

Elemeği offers efficient solutions in architecture and interior design Page 17

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Conquest of Bursa celebrated with enthusiasm, history reenacted

May 2015

“Ulu Sehir Bursa” was a major topic in ITB, International Tourism Fair Berlin Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, visited the booth “Great City of Bursa” at the ITB Berlin International Tourism Fair.

689th anniversary of the conquest of Bursa was celebrated with a ceremony in Fetih Gate, organized by Bursa Metropolitan Municipality with participations of the Governor Munir Karaloğlu, Bursa Garrison Commander Seyfullah Sadik, Mayor Recep Altepe, representatives of various public agencies. Ceremonies have continued, at Fetih Gate in Pinarbasi.

History comes alive in Fetih Gate The ceremony began with the National Anthem, homage for the martyrs and marches and information about the conquest is recited and poems are read. Fatah in the door to the Janissary Band and Sword Shield team Pınarbaşı’nda was the colorful scenes. Mayor Recep Altepe his speech at the ceremony said the conquest was a major turning point for of Bursa. Altepe said, “Our Bursa was important for everyone. In particular, Osman Gazi wanted to conquer and make it the capital. He sacrificed every thing he had to make Bursa the center of the world for the empire. He settled and built

castles on plains around Bursa and spent 23 years to conquer it. However Bursa did not retreat despite all his sacrifices. He finally bequeathed his son Orhan Gazi in his will that they should bury him under the shimmering silver dome he pointed out in Bursa. I want to be buried there, he said. In the end he passed away and Bursa was conquered by Orhan Bey in 1326. This is life inside the walls of Bursa had gone out with the conquest walls. The sultans did not live in the palaces of Bursa. They were all faithful and long-suffering. They lived on horseback. The foundations of Ottoman empire spanning three continents were thrown here.” As part of celebrations, Osmangazi Performing Arts Ensemble played folk dances. Later in the ceremony, the clothes of the Ottoman period were introduced, and the shows of Janissary Team with the sword, shield team also garnered great applause. Following the parade of the teams the tomb of Osman Gazi was visited. Following the prayers in the Tomb of the program ended.

Welcomed by Ahmet Hamdi Usta, Deputy Governor of Bursa, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Cavusoglu was briefed about touristic destinations and targets for tourism in Bursa in the coming years. The facts that Bursa was particularly covered in the UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage list and its membership of the European History thermal Cities Association as the first and the only city from Turkey were also highlighted in the presentation. The Minister then followed the show of Hacivat-Karagoz, the intangible cultural heritage craftworks as registered by UNESCO and was informed about the works and promotional activities involved by the governor’s office in the booth. In his statement, Foreign Minister Cavusoglu, said that he visited two separate stands of Bursa province in the fair and expressed his satisfaction about participation in the exhibition. He said that he wished it to be an example for other provinces. Stating that it is important for the promotion and representation of Bursa in Berlin with all the dynamics Minister Cavusoglu, pointed out his happiness to meet with his fellow countryman and fellow student explained that the Deputy Governor of Bursa Ahmet Hamdi Usta in such a successful event in abroad. Bursa Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Chairman Abdulkadir Karlik and president of the Tourism Promotion Association Council A. Necati Demir were also visiting the fair. Minister Cavusoglu was presented a gift of frame having his name “Minister Cavusoglu” made by a calligraphy artist and Iznik tiles.

Social projects of Osmangazi Municipality fascinated European guests Organized by Osmangazi Municipality, social issues forum meeting of Eurocities was participated by 120 representatives from 20 countries. The group visited the projects and investments of the municipality in the field of urbanization and social issues.

modern and earthquake-resistant housings by demolishing old and unsafe houses. It will change the architectural outlook of the area. We aimed to keep the same population in the area and protect the traditional life in quarter culture. The project will begin in May.”

The forum is held in Bursa, a place out of European cities for the first time. Representatives also visited OBAM, Osmangazi center for handicapped, information center, family counseling and guidance center, Butgem and urban transformation area and design management. Members of Eurocities were fascinated about the urban transformation project and other activities in social issues.

Guests expressed their views and appreciations on the projects and asked questions about the cost of the project, its social effects, views and responses of local people and other investments planned for the location.

Deputy mayor of Osmangazi Cem Kursad Hasanoglu informed the group about Soganlı urban transformation project. He said, “We will built

The project is carried out jointly by the municipality and the ministry of environment and urbanization. TRL 120 million was spent for the expropriation of the land. Field studies on local population showed that they are happy with the project. Other facilities for sports and cultural activities will also be built besides housing constructions.

(l. to r.) Ahmet Hamdi Usta, Deputy Governor; Dr. Metin Yurdakos, Busat chairman; Mevlut Cavusoglu, Foreign Minister; Ahmet Necati Demir, of the Tourism Promotion Association Council; and Abdulkadir Karlik, Deputy Mayor of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality.

During Minister Cavusoglu’s visit to the booth of Bursa, he was accompanied by other officials and bureaucrats including Republic of Turkey Berlin Ambassador, Undersecretary of Berlin Consul General of Culture and Tourism Ministry, Director General of Tourism Promotion, Tourism Attaché in Berlin Culture and some officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture and Tourism. Tour operators

visiting the fair, have shown great interest in the show of the Hacivat and Karagoz team and they accompanied the show. Fair visit from tour operators, “Holy City Bursa” which Hacivat and Karagöz show booth showed great interest. Hacivat and Karagöz was accompanied by tour operators. The show of ITB Berlin exhibition is closed on 8 March 2015.

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A call of cooperation from Mexico In his visit to Bursa metropolitan municipality, ambassador of Mexico Martha Barcena Coqui expressed their desire to improve commercial cooperation opportunities between Turkey and Mexico. Accompanied by commercial attaché Jorge Cruz, the ambassador was welcomed by Abdulkadir Karlik deputy mayor of municipality in historical building of the mayor. Ambassador Coqui expressed her views about Bursa and said, “I like the city of Bursa and its historical structure. We want to improve our relations and cooperation in commercial, cultural, tourism and educational fields. Bursa is a leading city in automotive production in Turkey. There may be variety of cooperation between the two countries.”

Abdulkadir Karlik introduced the current investment running in the city and provided information about historical and touristic assets of the city. He also presented some gifts to Ambassador Coqui.

The first tourist ship arrives in Mudanya town of Bursa A Bahama flag carrier cruiser namely Hamburg carrying the first tourist group landed at Mudanya pier with 368 passengers and 167 staff. Coming to Mudanya after Kuşadası and Dikili ports, the 145 meter long and 15,067 gross ton-vessel carrying German tourists was welcomed by Mudanya Municipality Assembly Member and Tourism Commission Chairman Huseyin Esen. While some of the passengers left by bus for visiting historical and cultural values of Bursa some others accompanied by Huseyin Esen, visited places in the town Mudanya. Taken to Tahir Pasha mansion, the group went to Mutareke Museum and then to Halit Pasha Quarter where Greek houses are located. Completing their Bursa and Mudanya tours by noon time the tourists left for Istanbul after they were hosted at Montania Hotel.

Bridge of fabrics from Bursa to Paris Famous designer Atil Kutoglu introduced his Fall/Winter ’15/’16 collections he prepared with special fabrics produced by the support of Uludag Textile Exporters Association, UTIB, to international public and fashion authorities in Paris, the heart of fashion. UTIB continues to represent Turkish fabrics branded as Turkish Fashion Fabrics, which were developed by combining contemporary innovations with successes in the past on all platforms. Invited by France federation of fashion to Paris Fashion Week, designer Atil Kutoglu organized a show held in Turkish embassy in Paris on 18th March with participation of ambassador Hakki Akil and his wife and of about 200 select guests in textile, fashion, art, cinema and political fields. Designs of Kutoglu were emphasizing on figures and inspirations from Turkish culture and ultramodern Ottoman styles and minimalism.

We support Turkish textile industry with all elements of it. Chairman of UTIB and Bursa Chamber of Trade and Industry, BTSO, Ibrahim Burkay informed about the supports they provided to textile industry in all kinds of incentives for exports, design, R&D, fashion and brand building. He said, “We are proud of working with famous designer Atil Kutoglu who was grown up in Bursa. Paris is known as the capital of fashion, so we want to make Bursa a capital city for technology and innovation. Tonight a bridge of fabric was established between Paris and Bursa that has a century old history in textiles. Atil Kutoglu, our fashion leader, is the founder of this bridge.”

Bursa renowned by its quality of life in international standards BURSA-Having a remarkable development in terms of well-known quality standards, Bursa, judged by a series of criteria, has been selected as one of the best cities of the world. Recep Altepe, Metropolitan Mayor of Bursa emphasized the fact that Bursa made its presence felt with its charming and restructured face. He said that Bursa upgraded its welfare standards by launching diverse range of infrastructural facilities, including a far-reaching rail system. “ Bursa has also been able to manufacture its integrated components of the rail system such as tramways and coaches. From this standpoint, Bursa ranks 7th in the world with its manufacturing capacity,” Mayor Recep Altepe pointed out. As known, Quality of Life Index, formulated by (www.numbeo.com.) focuses on the quality indicators of the leading cities of the World. Bursa was ranked as 48th among the 150 cities selected by numbeo website. It should be noted that Turkey’s leading cities such as İstanbul, İzmir and Ankara were outranked by Bursa in terms of certain welfare criteria. Designed and constructed by Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, the new stadium of Bursa has aroused great interest both at home and

abroad. The city of Bursa, the fourth most populous city of Turkey, has a new football stadium – the Timsah Arena. The name, meaning Crocodile Arena, is derived from the local football team, Bursaspor. The structure’s most striking feature, its roof, resembles a crocodile curled around the ground, complete with open mouth. The stadium and the surrounding park are well connected with the public transport system. Also the city center is just a minutes-walk away. Adam Hurrey of The Telegraph daily has underlined and focused on “Timsah Arena Bursa” (Crocodile Arena) among the most striking stadium projects of the World. Crocodile Arena with its charming and brand-new design was awarded by International Property Awards. Bursa, which hosts hundreds of multinational companies, is a dynamic market and a global investment destination. Bursa is attracting all kinds of Foreign Direct Investment such as green-field and high-tech investments. It offers great opportunities especially for market-seeking and efficiency-seeking investors. Domestic market with high growth potential, access to global markets, qualified labor force, developed production and transportation infrastructure and industrial clusters increase the competitiveness of Bursa.

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Bursa Free Zone invites investors from global sectors

Bursa Free Zone was founded in 1998 as Bursa Free Zone Founder and Operator Inc. with the purpose of establishing and operating free zone, under the leadership of Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, with the partnership of the industrialists and businessmen of Bursa. The purpose of foundation is to bring the import-export life of Bursa to a more rapid and competitive level. Construction works of free zone, completely founded with free zone plan, accordingly began on an 825-decare land with the approval of boundary decree numbered 2000/538 of the council of ministers, all infrastructure works were completed in a short time as 11 months and it began to carry out trade activities in May 2011.

as a door opening to the most significant ports of the Marmara Sea owing to its location, take this objective further every day. One of the most important characteristics of the region is that it is capable of making production at once behind the port area and providing logistic facility. The region has been carrying on increasing its trade volume by multiplying the amount every year Because of the fact that the region is located at a very strategic point in terms of industry and commerce, foreign investors increases in number day by day and this enhances employment by making a great contribution to the economy of the region.

The region is one of those who have possession of its own land It has been approaching its aim among the free zones in Turkey. Because of this reason, firms of becoming one of the biggest free zones that carry on business may purchase lands in the region and carry out their activities on directed to production among the land they possess. Free Zones since the date it commenced production day by The most significant factors for day. All infrastructure of free zone was completed wholly from site selection of the region: Proxits natural gas pipelines to tele- imity to ports, proximity to the phone lines with the thought of main road and province of Bursa being a fully organized industry which is an industrial giant; are the reasons. The firms that are and its subdivision was perengaging in activity in the region formed properly fort he industrialists and merchants to make are able to recruit personnel without having any problem of production. qualified employment and this fact has a great importance for Free Zone’s proximity to the increasing the production side of Province of Bursa which is an the region. industrial giant and its serving

May 2015

Award-winning Hastavuk grows fast As one of the leaders of the poultry sector with innovative services in Turkey, Hastavuk has been rendering best quality services in Turkey and around the world. Mr. Şahin Aydemir, general manager of the company outlined their operations: “In 2014, we had a good year in quality and production quantity. The feedback of Turkish and world consumers made us happy. 2014 was a year of awards. Hastavuk has won one of Europe’s most prestigious awards; “European Business Awards” based in London and has been declared as “Turkey’s national champion”. Hastavuk is one of the leaders of poultry sector with innovative services in Turkey. 2014-2015 Hastavuk represent Turkey and was announced for “Turkey’s national champion”. All consumers association in European Union rewarded Hastavuk for “Gold Brand Award”. Hastavuk received no complaints in 2014 and was recommended for the “Gold Brand” with its production quality, and technology.İn February 2015, Hastavuk won, which is the most prestigious award “Respect for People” award. This award was given due to fulfilling the criteria like most preferred company in 2014, received most job applications, answering the applications in short period of time and most employing company. We penetrated new markets and made new investments. We will invest about 30 milyon dollars in Eskişehir, Bursa and Susurluk region in 2015. This will generate an important worth for employment and production capacity. When we look back year 2014 did not fell behind the year 2013. However the expected growth rate could not reached in Russian

Ayhan Denizci welcomes orders from Brunei Sultanate despite its proximity to China Started his business activities in 2006 with the purpose of exporting only Ayhan Denizci exports his products which he manufactures under the roof of his own company named as “Marinero Home” to more than 40 countries today. works they performed and due to the interest they have received, they were put in a position where they start exporting to 12 countries. He continued, “The number of countries to which we export reached 40. We explored the international exhibitions. Accordingly, the current customer portfolio started to be formed. Later on, we improved this by the vacations we made to foreign countries. Accordingly we presented the country products and the products in terms of countries.”

Ayhan Denizci Tekstil Sanayi ve Ltd. Şti. achieved adding Brunei Sultanate to its chain of countries under the list of export. The significance of the export in question is the market structure of Brunei Sultanate and the geographic structure of the country. Due to this country having a rich and diverse market structure, they have a geographic position close to China especially when the products of the luxury segment are being imported. With its aggressive importer approach, China had succeeded to dominate the markets listed under its export targets. Ayhan Denizci taking orders from a country located at a geographic location so close to China inspires the young entrepreneurs in home textile of Turkey. Ayhan Denizci Tekstil Sanayi ve Ltd. Şti. introduced the quality of home textile industry of Turkey to Brunei Sultanate which is amongst the richest markets of Far East. The company exported USD 15,000 worth of curtains to the country located 9,000 kilometers from Turkey in the first batch. The company, which started business activities in 2006 with limited opportunities, exports its products they manufacture at their facilities at Bursa Demirtaş Organized

Industry Zone under the name “Marinero Home” with limited means to all over the globe. “Alternative Markets are important” Mr. Ayhan Denizci, owner of Ayhan Denizci Tekstil Sanayi ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. states that he is on manufacturers’ side and they make a great contribution to exports at every opportunity. He stated that they realized their first exports to Eastern European Markets and that they supply competitive goods to Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Greece. Ayhan Denizci also pointed out that they obtain positive feedback from the

Ayhan Denizci said that the major markets are important however they attached a lot of importance to the alternative markets and clarified, “The crisis in Europe affected us detrimentally just like the rest of the world. We were looking at alternative markets. Most important ones of those countries were Far Eastern markets. The trade made with that region had also attracted us. In this frame, we penetrated into Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand with a busy marketing program. We entered the Chinese market last year and we have good export figures. In addition, we are proud and happy for having realized the exports to Brunei Sultanate during the last 1.5 years.”

market. Despite this we export over 1 billion us dollars and succeed to reach the growth on 2013.Our difference on production quality and different product taste helped us to find new markets. In 2014 we performed over 30 million $ of export. This corresponds to 33 % growth compared to 2013. When most companies stuck in Middle East and Iraq, we ,as Hastavuk, focused on Africa and Turkic Republics in middle Asia. In near future, we think that Africa will be in a strong market position as Middle East. Because when we look at Africa population who needs protein with insufficient resources, we can see different portfolios. Of course Africa is not a deep market as Iraq but it is more shallow and stable. This year for the first time in Turkey we export chicken products to Lebanon and Qatar. We sell in Namibia and Ethiopia and we aim for new markets this year. The biggest reason of not penetrating these markets was the logistics, but now we see that chicken and chicken products sectors have learned the logistics.

Mr. Şahin Aydemir, General Manager

For this year, we aim 40 million $ for export. We plan to add 3 new countries to our current market. Japan is an important market for our sector. In Middle East we aim to place the quality and valuable products market on a solid ground. We move the 25-30 percent of our production to export markets which are already 26 countries and we want to stabilize this ratio. This year another aim is to increase the export countries to 30. But our priority is to meet the demand in domestic market. Our purpose is to establish selling points to our last consumers. We are carrying out several pro-

jects in this regard. Our slaughterhouse is open for consumers 24 hours a day and 365 days of a year. Even we invite people who are on the way back home from their holidays to see our production style. In 2014, 1583 consumers visited our slaughterhouse. 85% of visitors are women. Almost all visitors are our end consumers. On certain days of the month we organize with local markets a plant trip. We will continue our transparent production approach this year. Up to know, we invest 120 million $. We plan 30 million $ investment for this year. We need 50 million dollars more investment to say, ”We have succeeded.” That will make us reach 200 million $ for investment. Last year, we finished also our feed factory investment. We produce 1000 tons a day. The number of our workers was over 1400 people then. We closed 2014 with 40% turnover increase. İn 2015, we focused to fill the capacity in our slaughterhouse to 200 thousand chicken/day and 15% growth for parent-stock.”

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Four bros dress for world hotels

Having 55 years of experience in tailoring business Modaslan company of Bursa, a family business of four brothers, now produces occupational gowns for the personnel of famous hotels, hospitals and shopping centers in about 25 countries. Believing the importance of customer satisfaction for establishing a valuable brand, Huseyin Agilonu, general manager of the company says, “Customer satisfaction is important for us. Otherwise you can not serve to professional companies.” He introduced his company and activities.

Ace of M.I.C.E. Congress, Meeting and Events Awards is the most prestigious award organization in the sector and it is organized by Tourism Media Group in order to increase the awareness about the sector and the general coordination is carried out by TatuEvent.

ual gowns are sown with great delicacy, three sets for each personnel. Churn of workers may cause problems, because we have to supply the new sets immediately when a new person was hired. We have a good dialogue with our customers, who are our business partners not our customers only. Hotels may demand three to four models and we meet their demands. What is important is not to mass produce, but produce small amount of batches. So, our business is actually a service business.

How was the voyage of the company What kind of solutions do you offer started? to your customers? When Modaslan entered in this business in 1991 there were a few competition in the market. Since then our company is growing steadily and now we saw gowns for worldclass hotels, hospital chains, and shopping malls. Depending on our 55 years of past, we apply our quality and expertise in our business and became a powerful supplier for occupational gowns demanded by famous businesses. Our activities in abroad cover commercial ties with leading brands and chains. Customer satisfaction is important in our business. A satisfied customer means more sales and more new buyers. We supply leading hotel chains in about 25 countries, from Germany to Kuwait.

Why leading hotel chains prefer you? First we send our team to hotels of the customer. They take measures of staff personally, a time consuming work. Then the individ-

People who work in certain functions of hotels have certain sizes. Hotels may not be aware of this fact. So, we get the actual measures of the people to prevent mismatching. People from Indonesia or Philippines are generally smaller then the Russians working in hotels. We have to deliver our products having right sizes and right amounts.

Will you give us information about your customers, the hotel chains? For about twenty years, we have been dealing with famous hotel chains such as Hilton, Ramada, Crowne Plaza, Four Season, Shangri, JW Marriott Swiss, Holiday Inn Intercontinental, Hyatt, Dedeman, Kempinsky who has hotels in 25 countries including Russia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Rumania, Germany, England, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel and Kuwait. That means that we do our job as good as possible. When a new hotel is about

to be opened, they search suppliers in Turkey and most of the time they find our company. People know about our business and our products they advice our company and us.

So, you are a leader in the business? Yes, we can say that we are the leader in Turkey. Additionally, foreign brands know us and appreciate our business. Customers only can decide who is the leader of the world. We get encouraging appreciations and responses from our customers. This is enough for us. We certainly have to produce profits, as well, however, our priority is to do our job as best as possible.

Tourism potential in Bursa advances Recent incentives and transportation projects improves touristic position of Bursa Orhan Gazi, founders of the Ottoman state are in Bursa, the first capital of the Ottomans. It has important buildings and five major kulliye. Istanbul also has many assets from Ottoman period, but those in Bursa represent the early period of the Empire.

One of the rare locations available for summer, winter, historical and spa tourisms, Bursa improves its position in thermal, medical and congress tourism segments. General manager of Burkon tourism company, Hasan Eker, introduced his company and activities.

On Burkon tourism company We have been active in four deportments since 2000. One of them deals with national congress organizations in cooperation with several associations. Besides, we manage reservations and transfer service for hotel and holidays in the country and in abroad. We started several congress events in Bursa, including Neurology days, Pediatry days, Internal diseases congresses. About 4 thousand people come to Bursa for congresses. All transfers are made by our company

On health tourism in Bursa Health is one of the branches of tourism. Bursa has many advantages. It has two segments, medical and thermal tourism. In both segment medical experts and hospitals have enough capacity but we need more investment.

On air transport from Bursa to several cities The biggest problem in air transport in Bursa is the lack of a Bursa-based airlines. Since THY is headquartered in Istanbul, Istanbul-Bursa flights have empty seats. Flights to Trabzon and Erzurum carry more passengers. When right flight

Montania awarded as the best meeting service provider boutique hotel M.I.C.E Exhibition 2015 was granted to winners in an outstanding ceremony held in Haliç Congress Center on Friday evening, February 27th.

Modaslan in Bursa produces gowns for hotel workers worldwide

Hasan Eker, General Manager

and route plans are developed I believe that air transport in Bursa will boom.

On his assessments as a travel agency It is easy to travel to Bursa. Istanbul is one of the major hub for international flights. Passengers can reach Bursa with one and half hour sea fare from Istanbul. It can be reached by road, sea and air transports. There is an international airport in Bursa that attracts charter flights from Kuwait and other locations in August and in September. The prospective Istanbul Izmir Highway will improve road transport to Bursa.

On the reasons that tourists should visit Bursa Bursa, the Ottoman village in Cumalikizik, is the only location for tourists who want to experience the life in Ottoman Empire, a civilization of six centuries, reigned in Europe and in Asia. Tombs of Osman Gazi and

Besides the remains in Bursa, there are valuable destinations in Iznik, Golyazi, Trilye and Uludag. Peaches of Bursa, figs, pears and kebabs are also famous. It is an attractive destination for culinary. The longest cable car is in Bursa, it carry guests to Uludag in 20 minutes up 2453 meters, having rich natural beauties in winter and in other seasons. Cumalikizik and Bursa is mentioned in the world heritage list of UNESCO that has five of the necessary criteria to reflect its global value. Only 20 cities in the world meets five of the criteria, Bursa is one of them.

On his view about recent hotel investments in Bursa Lately, serious investments have made in Bursa for tourism. There are good and beautiful hotels for tourists. Prices are competitive. Leading hotel chains, have five star facilities in the city including Sheraton, Hilton, Holiday Inn, Ibis, Crowne Plaza, etc. Celik Palace and Karavanserai hotels have hammams belonging Byzantian era. A new congress center and original restaurants reflecting Ottoman cuisine have been built for more satisfaction of tourists.

This year, more than 150 companies applied for Ace of M.I.C.E. Congress, Meeting and Events Awards in a total of 23 branches of four categories, including Meeting Management Companies, Meeting Assistance Companies, Hotels and Events. The winners are determined among 66 candidates who ranked in the first three in their categories after pre-qualifications made by a 91-member jury. Montania Special Class Hotel –the unique seaside hotel in Bursa – serves to visitors in the areas which are especially designed for congress and meeting organizations. Montania Special Class Hotel offers a perfect environment for event organizations with its completely renovated areas, close location to Bursa and Istanbul,

high standard service quality and the hotel’s history. The historic Ballroom which was used as “rectangular locomotive depot” in order to provide basic maintenance services for steam locomotives and to make these locomotives ready for the next trip when they were operated on Bursa Mudanya railroad - hosts your elegant invitations, conferences & seminars and meeting organizations from 30 up to 350 participants with its 2,5 m sun welcoming glass windows and 8.5 m high unique ceiling and the outstanding service quality. Your fairy tale weddings - that you dream off - are expecting you in this great hotel where there is a as unique Marmara Sea view; a magnificent historic terrace where you feel the atmosphere of a 165-year old train station; where you can held your events such as poolside summer weddings, celebrations, invitations etc. up to 550 guests; and where you can feel yourself in secret gardens of Bursa under the shadow of our 180-year old plane tree. The professional service and kitchen staff of Montania Special Class Hotel makes your glorious invitations memorable as they serve you beyond your expectations.

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Tourism in the context of progress and the Bursa Model Every brand, product, and value has an essence, an ore. The essence of tourism must be the natural, historical, and humane richness and diversity. In this respect, both Turkey and Bursa is very lucky. For the thousands of years, Turkey is the flow point where East and West connect and the center of the greatest empires where the sun has risen. Bursa is the founding city of Ottoman Empire that is the grand representative of our civilization. However, when the advantages offered by time and place are not made use of or when the ore is not processed properly, a value, a brand does not appear in the real sense. Processing of the essence (natural, historical, humane), transformation into product, and establishment of marketing strategies… All of it requires integrated policies and process management. Production of values and sustainability of their representation is a discussion-worthy subject. Firstly, the concept ‘Sustainable Tourism’ that has been expressed in 1992 Rio Conference is very important in this sense. Sustainable tourism is defined as a production style and an industry that does not sacrifice

social, cultural, environmental values to tourism. On the other hand, World Tourism Organization describes sustainable tourism as a tourism style that improves the life quality of the host country, provides high quality service experience for the guests, and nourishes the quality of the environment. The sustainability of tourism primarily depends on the sustainability of the ecological processes. The preservation of historical and cultural legacies, the respect for the values of the people is essential. We, as a country and a city, locate our natural, historical, and humane assets which we accept to be universal legacies, as a unique ecosystem that benefits the humanity and produces values. What we are trying to establish has a meaning beyond tourism investments.

Bursa: The Common Heritage of Humanity For instance, the registry of your values as the World Culture Heritage is very important for sustainable tourism. Carrying the UNESCO logo means being involved in the global tourism web. After serious efforts and work, Bursa has been registered to the UNESCO World Heritage List with the file titled “Bursa and Cumalıkızık: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire”. In the 38th World Heritage Committee Meeting that took place in the capital of Qatar, Doha, from Turkey, the Caravanserai District, Sultan’s Social Complexes, Cumalıkızık District in Bursa and Bergama in Izmir was decided to be added in the list. Values of Bursa are in 998th in the world and 12th in Turkey in UNESCO World Heritage List. By 2014, of all the 1007 worldwide registered cultural and natural properties in the UNESCO World Heritage List, Bursa has in total 80 historical and cultural properties included from 6 districts.

The European Historic Thermal Towns Association (EHTTA) and Bursa Bursa is a center of history and civilizations as much as it is a city of healing with thermal treasures. Dozens of historical baths and thermal hot springs from three grand civilizations of Rome, Byzantium, and Ottoman keeps healing. Turkey which signed up for great transformations in health sector in the recent years, takes firm steps forward in the way of becoming the “Health Base” of Europe and the Middle East. Bursa being the first and the only member from Turkey in the European Historic Thermal Towns Association (EHTTA); Sultan’s socials complexes, Caravanserai District and Cumalıkızık Village being registered to UNESCO World Culture Heritage are important progresses and great success that emphasizes the global identity of Bursa… This way, we have more opportunities to share the legacy that we have with all of the humanity. On the other hand, besides Bursa was accepted to EHTTA 2 years ago, our city will host the 2015 October EHTTA General Assembly Meeting. It should be explicitly expressed that we refuse to commercialize the historical, cultural, and natural treasures of Bursa for a pittance. Our precise aim is to transform our values into an industry, a sustainable development model.

Tourism and culture together in Bursa Development by tourism but neglecting the culture is an outdated and a bad development model. For example, because Venice has built all of the investments in tourism, during the crisis in Europe, it has taken serious strokes. Both the inhabitants of the city and the number of the tourists decreased seriously. Likewise, Greece is facing a similar situation these days. This leads to the redefinition of tourism in the 21st century. The definition gains a new form. We, Bursa Governorship, and all of the share holders of the city try to act based on this new form. Transformation

of tourism to a culture industry, using it as a catalyst in the development of economy and employment is another aim that we have. The preservation of the autochthonic spirit of Bursa and transfer of the historical, natural, and cultural heritages to next generations is our biggest desire. We, as Turkey and Bursa, have covered a lot of ground to achieve this aim. For example the number of tourists coming to the country has increased 30-fold during the last 10 years. Accordingly, tourism income has increased by 60-70-fold. It is a fact that tourism has also developed in many respects at this time interval. Tourism, not just the economy, has become a branch of science strictly related to politics, psychology, art, nature, sports, culture, human rights etc. We cannot regard tourists as temporary visitors that we host for only a few days anymore. Tourists, now, go home not with some souvenir photos but with hours’ length video records. Every year 30 million tourists shoot documentary films about Turkey! They take these documentaries to Saudi Arabia, Japan, United States, Kuwait, Dubai and share them with the world.

A new global tourism destination: Bursa Tourism is a field where all sensibilities and delicacies are being tested. Tourism, now progresses with universal standards, emotions and observations appealing to all of the humanity. Branding, producing strategies, and increasing the income are of course important. However, in a world where we can reach even to the most remote areas of the Earth in a few hours, we should use these communication and transportation opportunities to enhance the universal standards. Contribution of tourism to world peace and universal fellowship should be in our priorities list. Only the satisfied departure of tourists that visited Turkey, Grand City Bursa from our country, our city is not enough. We can add values to the lives of 30 million people beyond service quality. Bursa Governorship, Bursa Metropolis Municipality, and Bursa Culture and Tourism Publicity Association along with all share holders of the city, this is the tourism model that we wish to adopt and develop. Going beyond service quality for our visitors, we wish to diversify our service by culture art, history and nature. This model requires the publicity of our city and country with its cultural, artistic, and humane values in a more advanced level. Bursa takes steps in the way of becoming a global tourism destination. It acts with the purpose of an admirable contribution to the 2023 Tourism objectives of Bursa and Turkey.

Economic Newspaper

May 2015

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A bright future lies ahead for “Bursa-The Great City” Bursa, being renowned for its unique geographical position, natural beauties and climate, including its proximity to sea and Uludag, has turned out to be an ideal place for tourism and quality health services. BURSA-Bursa, one of the largest metropolitan areas of Turkey with more than two million inhabitants, became a city which is aimed to be transformed into a “Brand City.” We have recently interviewed , Governor of Bursa. The interview follows:

Could you brief us on your vision and the activities related to a brand new Bursa? As a matter of fact, we are living in a century of brands. The cities are more marked than the countries to which they belong. As known, we have recently launched our motto under the name of “Bursa- The Great City” coupled with our new logo. We believe that this logo, inspired by the riches of the city would pave the way for contributing to the branding process of Bursa. We know that being quality conscious is a prerequisite for a brand formation. So, we put emphasis on upgrading Bursa in terms of major quality standards. Bursa is a fruitful city giving birth to worldwide brands such as its historic monuments, textiles, towels, chestnut, peach, fig and some other products. Bursa has Geographical Indication (GI), a sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin .The use of a GI act as a certification that the product possesses certain qualities or enjoys a certain reputation, due to its geographical origin. Whenever brand cities of the world are mentioned, New York, Paris and Dubai come to mind. However, Bursa, being able to give a peace of mind to its visitors, differs itself from them considerably.

As known, Turkey attracts Arab tourists in recent years. Bursa welcomes majority of Arab tourists preferring Turkey. What would you like to say about this trend? Bursa has turned out to be a city of summits and international gatherings such as Balkan Economic Summit and Uludağ Economic Summit. Arab Economic Summit was held recently. Arab and Middle Eastern tourism has gained momentum in recent years. Apart from being an industrial city, Bursa has a rich culture and tourism capacity that welcome Arab tourists. Many Arab business people are eager to make investments in housing and shopping mall projects. Almost thirty percent of tourists going on holiday at the Uludağ ski resort are Arabs. The city has been a profitable place for Arab investors for many years. Both city and mountain hotels show full occupancy.

Upon completion of İstanbulİzmir highway, what projects do you have to attract the interests of tourists for Bursa? It takes one hour or one and a half hours from Bursa to İstanbul depending on your choice by sea. Upon the completion of İstanbul-İzmir Highway, it will be one hour by land transportation. Indeed, Bursa’s proximity to İstanbul offers many advantages to both cities. We are coordinating a series of mutually fruitful projects by cooperating with The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

We participate in fairs and exhibitions held in İstanbul to convey the message of Bursa, by publicizing natural, historic and cultural riches of the city. During the fairs, our booths arouse great interest more than ever. Actually, Bursa assumes a unique position to contribute to Istanbul in various aspects.

Whenever Bursa is mentioned, Uludağ comes to mind. Will Uludağ become Turkey’s Davos? What do think about the future of Uludağ? The cities have their own symbols. Being the 5th national park of the country, Uludağ is the symbol of Bursa. We cooperate with the Turkish Ministry of Forestry and Water Works in order to upgrade the infrastructural facilities of Uludağ, one of the most prominent tourism centers of Turkey. As known, we have an aerial lift line in Bursa connecting the city of Bursa with the nearby ski resort area and national park at mountain Uludağ. Initially, we had aerial tramway line, it served long until it was replaced by a modern system of gondola lift and extended into ski resort area. The installation of a new line became unavoidable due to increased demand by tourists. Uludağ hosts 104 endemic plants. We are planning to initiate Endemic Plants Botanic Garden located in Uludağ National Park, by cooperating with Uludağ University. We restored our aerial lift line. By doing so, we are able to transfer 3,000,000 passengers to Uludağ annually. Now, I ask you the same question:

Could you mention about thermal and health tourism potential of Turkey? As it is the case for Turkey, Bursa has its own targets for 2023. From this standpoint, we are planning put into far reaching projects. Bursa Jeothermal AŞ (Bursa Geothermal Inc.) was established to utilize from the thermal resources of the city. Bursa’s water resources were analyzed and they are found to be hyperthermal and mineral waters. Bursa hosts a geothermal area that boasts a number of hot springs. The province is a place to come if you want a traditional experience because Turkish baths are known throughout the world. Traditional bathhouses with charming tile designs and arching ceilings can be found all around the central Çekirge

Bursa, cradle of civilizations for centuries and first capital of the Ottoman Empire, hosts diverse range of historic and cultural riches.

district of Bursa. The various minerals in the waters are known to have healing properties. It should be noted that water is also transferred to a number of area hotels, which operate their own mineral pools for guests. It is a well-known fact that people discovered the therapeutic powers of Bursa’s thermal springs centuries ago. With one of the best climates in the world, Bursa has turned to be one of the ideal psychological and physical health centers for well-being. Turkish Government adopts health tourism as a major policy item. Within this framework, three provinces of Turkey have been selected for health tourism. One of them is Bursa. Turkey is estimated to host 65,000 patients in a year. These patients will be distributed to the provinces, particularly for Bursa. 10 billion dollars revenue are expected to be realized from the health tourism in Turkey until the year 2018. Promotion of European spa culture brings with it three different concepts: welfare, health, and tradition. Bursa, with its rich and vast cultural heritage, combines welfare, health and tradition for centuries. Bursa has been approved as a member of European Historical Thermal Towns

Association (EHTTA) at the meeting of Technical Committee of EHTTA which was gathered in Belgium on 15 March, 2013. Bursa has been a part of European Historical Thermal Destination which has been authorized by the Council of Europe. It is evident that Bursa’s successful performance in health tourism will increasingly continue and Bursa will be capital city of Turkey as far as health tourism is concerned.

What projects do you have for promoting Bursa abroad? Bursa has a great potential with its abundant industrial and agricultural sector. As known, Bursa hosts migrants from Balkan countries. Thus, these people act as a bridge between Bursa and Balkan countries. We display Bursa’s cultural, historic and economic riches by participating in various fairs and exhibitions thereby contributing to promotion of Bursa abroad efficiently.

Could you sum up Bursa’s economic outlook? Bursa, being an industrialized and export-oriented province of Turkey, has been contributing to Turkish economy for years. With its population of

2,787,539, Bursa ranks 4th in terms of its economic development. Bursa, with its 13 organized industrial zone including 1371 industrial establishment, employing 138,338 persons. Technical works are underway for increasing the number of industrial zones from 13 to 22; thereby increasing the number of employed to 170,926. Bursa accounts for75 percent of total synthetic yarn production, 75 percent of automobile production, 48 percent of truck and pick-up production, 2 percent of minibus production, 10 percent of bus production, 54,75 percent of total vehicle exports. Bursa accounts for a remarkable share of Turkey’s readymade garment production. It is a rich province in terms of its water resources. 70 percent of Turkey’s mineral water and 10 percent of spring water are produced in Bursa. With its qualified and competent manpower, Bursa excels in textile, automotive, machinery, furniture and the related industries. Apart from being an industrial center of Turkey, Bursa is also a renowned agricultural hub. It is a prominent center for health and thermal tourism. As for the energy sector, Bursa’s private and public sector produce 2827 MW energy; 1610 MW of which is from the public sector, 1217 MW from the private sector. Bursa, being a European city makes its presence felt in foreign markets through its brand-new products. Bursa, cradle of civilizations for centuries and first capital of the Ottoman Empire, hosts diverse range of historic and cultural riches.

How do you imagine the future of Bursa? There is no limit to imagination when it comes to Bursa. To sum up, we can say that a promising and bright future lie ahead for Bursa. We are convinced that Bursa will be able to reach at its 2023 targets by utilizing its potential in an efficient manner.

Tourism

May 2015

Metropolitan Municipality restores Green Bursa makes its presence felt Roman amphitheater through its historic riches Bursa, the first capital of the Ottoman Empire with a history dating back to centuries at the heart of the silk and spice trade and Turkey’s fourth largest city. The city, which has been the capital of many civilizations for centuries, is the hub of many monuments and historical works nowadays. The city’s skyline is comprised of historical landmarks varying from mosques, madrasas and baths. Attracting attention for its natural beauty as well as its rich cultural heritage Bursa is also a much preferred holiday resort for winter sports. Uludağ in Bursa is frequented by both winter and outdoor sports enthusiasts. Well-known for its large shopping centers, bazaars and museums Bursa has a temperate climate. The region is cool in the summer and mild in the winter.

Protocol on the restoration of historical amphitheater in Iznik belonging to the Roman era was sent to Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said Recep Altepe, metropolitan mayor of Bursa. The protocol covers restoration works that will be made in the 2000 year-old amphitheater in Iznik, the only remains of its kind in the region.

The first impression of the city might be that of a large, concrete-ridden modern metropolis that is betraying its largely recognized Turkish epithet of Yeşil Bursa (“Green Bursa”), and its historical prominence as being the cradle of the Ottoman state; however, upon a closer look you will see it really lives up to its name, by proudly displaying its Ottoman heritage in the shape of many mosques, tombs, and lovely quarters of old houses, as well as by harboring many pleasant parks, which fill the city with fresh air, and provide the weary traveller some shade to rest in—and even if you haven’t found the parks sufficient enough to have this city earned the honorific of “green”, then the lush woodlands of Mt. Uludağ is just above that steep hill.

Accompanied by governor of Iznik prefecture Huseyin Karamese and Iznik mayor Osman Sargin, Altepe visited the ruins, and said, “I hope that in a year or two it will be one of the rare venues for artistic and touristic events with all its beauties. There are many historical assets in the region, belonging to the both Islamic civilization and valuable for Islam and Christianity. The amphitheater is still standing after two thousand years. Digs in the region have been going on for about 50 years. We will provide funds necessary for the completion of the project. Archeological process will soon begin for both exploration and restoration. It will assume its historical mission to host several touristic and artistic events.” On the occasion of the visit, governor of Iznik prefecture Huseyin Karamese emphasized on the importance of the location that was the center for four civilizations in Marmara region. He said, “This the only

Who wouldn’t like to sightsee a scenic city that harbors a variety of landmarks of different cultures?

theater of Romans. A protocol was signed between municipality and the ministry. I thank to the mayor Altepe and all of the peo ple that worked on the project.”

In 2014, Bursa and a nearby village of Cumalıkızık were added to the UNESCO world heritage list. The remains at several sites illustrate the urban and rural system establishing the Ottoman Empire in the early 14th century.

Bursa, due south of Istanbul across the Sea of Marmara, for its beautiful mosques and other early Ottoman architecture, for its silk-filled bazaars. Hundreds of foreign companies have settled in Bursa’s industrial zones, which have become centers of Turkey’s automotive and textile industries. Almost two-thirds of the vehicles that Turkey is expected to export to foreign markets this year are assembled in Bursa. The capital of many civilizations Bursa is blessed with many natural and historical sites that attract the attention of the ecotourism and culture tourism sectors. Bursa is literally an open-air museum with its many castles, churches, lodges, mosques, mausoleums, madrasas, museums, inns, bridges, spas and cultural centers bearing the traces of history and different civilizations. It is possible to come across a hidden heritage in every corner of the city. With its natural areas and parks, Bursa is the first choice for sports lovers. The coastal and mountainous sites of the area are ideal for sport enthusiasts who want to spend some entertaining time full of adrenaline. Uludag welcomes all skiing, snowboarding and mountaineering enthusiasts with great pleasure.

Cumalıkızık invites all tourists who want to explore the lifestyle in the old district of Bursa. It is a highly recommended must-see place that is worth the visit before leaving Bursa. The spas and thermal hotels are among the most valuable assets of Bursa. While relaxing in the healing waters of the thermal springs you will feel the tranquility invading your body from top to toe. The local cuisine, which has originated from the Ottoman cuisine and been enriched with ingredients brought by traders from distant regions, is famous for its delicious and original dishes. While the world-famous Iskender Kebab, served with pita and thinly sliced delicious meat will delight your taste buds the traditional desserts and candied chestnuts will become your favorite after-dinner desserts. Silk, which has been the most important product and trade item of Bursa is processed with great efforts so that high quality fabric of silk is obtained. It is highly recommended that you take a look at these special fabrics made of pure silk before leaving Bursa. Last but not least, Bursa is inviting you to explore the cultural heritage that has evolved under the influence of the Silk Road.

Economic Newspaper

May 2015

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The first thermal SPA featured “City” hotel in Bursa. Welcome to Marigold Thermal and Spa which is the most friendly and the newest thermal SPA city hotel of Bursa. Marigold Thermal & SPA Hotel, has the uniqueness of the thermal therapy tradition, the location by being in the heart of the city and the name comes from Velvet flowers in the foothills of Uludag mountains. Thermal & Spa Hotel, a five-star comfort and Marigold boutique hotel concept of hospitality in a very different temperature meet. Away from the standard hotel concept, unique and peaceful city hotel ... 46 °C thermal water in a pool and also the rooms, the baths, the warm smile on the face of the team

Sheraton Bursa Hotel

Whether on business or leisure, the Sheraton Bursa Hotel is the leading hotel address in Bursa. The Hotel offers 171 spacious guestrooms including 10 suites, an All Day Dining restaurant and a Specialty Restaurant offering international cuisine. Link@ Sheraton Café with its healthy options and our exclusive Club Lounge give you further options. Pamper yourself at the Sheraton Shine Spa Bursa the ultimate wellness experience offering an indoor pool, Hammam and a wide variety of massages. Tone up at our Sheraton Fitness accessible 24/7. For your meetings and special activities the Sheraton Bursa Hotel offers 1,340 square meters of flexible meeting space. Sheraton Bursa Hotel is truly a gathering place for urban explorers. We look forward to have you with us.

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Adapalas Hotel

Adapalas hotel, licensed with three stars by the Ministry of Tourism, has been serving in one of the eminent quarters called Çekirge in Bursa. The establishment, serving to people who look for hospitality, hygiene, comfort, quality and most importantly for the warm atmosphere of home, caters more to five senses. “A Classis of Bursa, Adapalas Hotel”

Montania Hotel

MONTANIA SPECIAL CLASS HOTEL offers its guest-oriented service concept with unparalled quality by blending the comfort and services that it offers. You will feel yourself at home in company with the history, sea, in magical harmony of classic and modern with the excellence of the service provided.

In your holidays and business trips, you’ll enjoy the rich breakfast of the hotel accompanied by a marvelous view of Bursa plain and feel the peace in the center of town in Çekirge. “Providing quality service has become our principle” Adapalas is located in walking distance to cultural and business centers of the city, where you can get in access them and meet your all kinds of needs easily by simply a short walk. “You’ll feel the history whilst your lodging at Adapalas Hotel” Çekirge Mah. 1. Murat Cad. No:21 Osmangazi/Bursa P: +90 224 233 39 90 www.adapalas.com

MONTANIA combines modern and contemporary service concept of Today with its historical atmosphere thanks to the experience that it has. MONTANIA is for epicure guests travelling for business and entertainment in search of the best during their accomodation. MONTANIA SPECIAL CLASS HOTEL with its 32 rooms is a charachteristic beautiful option for the ones who would like have nostalgia for the past. İstasyon Cad. Mudanya/Bursa P: +90 224 544 60 00 www.montania.com.tr

Aloft Bursa Hotel

Discover Aloft Bursa, the new tWist in travel has arrived in town, in the heart of Nilüfer district. Stay and play in a spacious loft-inspired room featuring ultra-comfy signature beds, oversized spa showers, tech savvy features like a 40” flat-screen TV and free WiFi available throughout the whole hotel. Mix and mingle over live music, signature cocktails and unmissable events at the W xyz Bar, a no-walls, no limits space Hungry? Grab breakfast or some snacks in Re:fuel and relax at Re:mix or get moving in our Re:charge fitness center open 24/7. Our tactic meeting spaces make it easy to give your meeting an easy breezy touch. You will feel at home with our friendly service delivered by our talents Odunluk Mahallesi Akpınar Cad · Bursa, 16110 · Turkey · P: +90 224 300 30 30 www.aloftbursa.com

Vip Apart Hotel

VIP APART HOTEL is located on Kükürtlü Street in the area of Green Bursa’s well know Thermal springs. It is composed of twenty five apartments of various sizes. Each of these apartments has been decorated and furnished in order to provide you with all the comforts of home. It serves as a home away from home. VIP APART HOTEL has luxury and comfortable bedrooms, bathrooms and living room designed for you comfort and enjoyment. Kitchens are fully equipped with ovens, refrigerators and automatic washing machines. Each unit has a telephone line for domestic and international calls. A cable TV is included in the room where electronic safes are installed. Breakfast room is provided when needed. The Hotel has excellent fire and security systems and a wireless network. In addition to the services and facilities listed above, VIP APART HOTEL provides parking spaces and living-rooms with air conditioning.

Kükürtlü Cad No:46/48 Osmangazi/BURSA P:+90 224 234 34 75 (pbx) www.vipaparthotel.com

News

May 2015

Rich potential for tourism in Nilufer

One of the major destinations contributing to national and regional economy in Bursa, Nilufer is ready to host its guests with its cultural assets, art events, modern urban services and tourism opportunities.

Anatolian Arasta â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cultural mosaic The first cultural heritage in Bursa and in Turkey, Anatolian Arasta will combine all dimensions of cultural values prevailing in the Balkans, Anatolia and Caucuses. With contributions of fellow citizen associations, 81 provinces of Turkey will be reflected on a 163 thousand-sqm land. Local houses, caravanserais, joy gardens, fairs and other values will be revived in Anatolian Arasta. The event has been managed by the cooperative for development of tourism for Anatolian Arasta as a democratic, friendship and peace project.

Exploring Nilufer from above Established in 2010 the association of Nilufer sportive aviation has flown thousands in cooperation with Nilufer municipality. The aviation club, headquartered in Fadilli quarter beside lake Uluabat, organizes services for flying over historical and natural places with paragliding, paramotors and ultra light flights in its facilities having grass runways besides training, camping and accommodation services.

Misi Kamp Caravan facility Established on 12 acre land in Gumustepe quarter on the shore of Nilufer brook, the first camping and caravan facility in Bursa is one of the colorful samples of tourism in the province. The facility can host 70 caravans and offer services for social needs, cuisines, washing,

shower, parking for both domestic and foreign campers. It is ideal for those families who want to introduce nature and camping world to their kids.

Misi Cocoon and Silk house Founded with incentives provided by Nilufer municipality in Golyazi, Misi, Gorukle, Ozluce and Dagyenice quarters, 12 women associations put their efforts to introduce local tastes, local dishes and local handcrafts to tourists and the younger generations. Women in Misi, try to revive the valuable heritage of cocoon farming and local cuisine under the project that is supported by Nilufer municipality, Ministry of culture, and UN development program. Misi Cocoon House also offers local dishes that are prune to be forgotten by recent generations to the visitors.

Economic Newspaper

May 2015

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Wellness

May 2015

Bursa Medical Park Hospital in the field of Neurosurgery! possible”. “Thus, nerve can recover and symptoms will clearly and faster regress” he added.

Neurosurgery Clinic of the Medicalpark Bursa Hospital serves domestic and international patients by academician staff with international education background in strict concordance with the mission of the Medicalpark Hospitals Group, “Health for everybody”.

Assoc. Prof. Melih Çekinmez clarified the fact that full recovery may not be achieved in some conditions of the “Cauda Equina Syndrome” and he emphasized that irreversible complications, such as urinary incontinence or strength and/or sensory deficit, may be experienced, although correct surgery is successfully performed. Mr. Çekinmez concluded that the consideration is to make patient survive best possible quality life, while timing of the surgery is decided, and “the most common mistake in the lumbar hernia is to make the decision ‘there is hernia, and surgery is required’ or ‘there is no hernia and thus, surgery is not required’ solely based on evaluating radiological films on a negatoscope” he added and emphasized that a detail medical history should be first obtained and radiological studies should be evaluated in the light of the neurological examination.

Spinal surgery operations (cervical, thoracal and lumbar discectomies, degenerative spine surgeries and instrumentations), trauma surgery (epidural, subdural and intra-parenchymal hematomas, compression fractures, cranioplasties, spine fractures and spondylolisthesis, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty), neuro-oncological tumor surgeries (Glial tumors, metastatic tumors, meningiomas, pituitary adenoma surgeries, posterior fossa surgeries, cerebellopontine angle tumors, skull base tumors, skull base tumors), congenital anomalies (craniocytosis surgeries, meningocele, meningomyelocele, hydrocephalus surgeries, neurovascular surgery (aneurysms, arteriovenous malformation, cavernoma, spinal AVM and AVF surgeries).

Low back pain and treatment Assoc. Prof. Melih Çekinmez, from Neurosurgery Clinic of Bursa Medical Park Hospital, specified that almost everybody suffers low back pain at any time of the life. He emphasized that low back pains are mostly characterized with mechanical aches resulting from daily rush and sprain/strain and added that medications and physiotherapy may help those pains. He added that for low back pain actually secondary to the lumbar

hernia, medications or physiotherapy may be insufficient and time lost secondary to insufficient time will negatively influence the outcome of the surgery.

process is not only accompanied with strength and sensory deficit, but it may also lead to sexual dysfunction, fecal incontinence or urinary incontinence.

“Cauda Equina syndrome may result with paraplegia secondary to complete impingement of nerves originating from the spinal cord by the herniated disc” said Assoc. Prof. Melik Çekinmez, who underlined the importance of selecting best therapeutic option for each patient. Mr. Çekinmez explained that this

Assoc. Prof. Melih Çekinmez specified that those conditions necessarily require operation and time lost secondary to insufficient physiotherapy or medication therapy will negatively influence the outcome of surgery, and he warned “the patient should be operated and the compression should be eliminated as soon as

“Complaints of the patient should be listened and the neurological examination should be directed accordingly, and thus, the best possible method should be preferred” he said. Emphasizing the necessity that a detailed evaluation is made to clear out whether there is strength, sensory and/or reflex deficit and the picture is globally considered along with the lumbar MRI, Assoc. Prof. Melih Çekinmez mentioned that the patient should be clearly informed about benefits and risks of the operation and a solution is preferred in this end.

The Ozturk Plug, a novel approach to the treatment of anal fistula

Today, health tourism has important share in tourism revenues of the several countries. It is a well-known fact that health tourism revenues of some developing countries are much more higher than their any other tourism incomes.

Health tourism, which means to procure health care from another countries due to certain reasons, may also be a significant potential source of income in developing countries. Our country experienced some fundamental health problems that could not overcome in the past. However, in line with successful implementation of health care reform, health tourism has become a crucial item on the agenda. Those people who are unable to reach to medical services in their own countries divert their health demand to other countries. The duration and very long process of treatment is another reason for health tourism demand. When we look at our country in general and Bursa in particular, we can say that we are able to offer competitive health services and medical treatment in terms of quality and price. Health care is very expensive and not easily reachable in the world’s many most developed countries, It is known that an appointment, even for very simple operations can be given after several months. Our country has turned out to be efficient in this regard. Native and foreign patients can benefit from quality health care in return for reasonable prices. Therefore, our country is preferred with a rapidly increasing demand of health care from abroad.

The health services demand directed to our country arise mainly from the African countries and the Turkic Republics. Bursa, being renowned for its unique geographical position, natural beauties and climate, including its proximity to sea and Uludag, has turned out to be an ideal place for quality health services. Health services produced in Bursa are competitive in terms of price and quality, judged by the international standards. Bursa has been able to combine health services and tourism in an ideal way. So, Bursa attracts diverse range of tourists demanding health and medical services in recent years, with its modern and competent hospitals which comply with most up to date technology and know-how. We are convinced that Bursa’s successful performance in health tourism will increasingly continue and Bursa will be capital city of Turkey as far as health tourism is concerned. Our country and Bursa in particular provide good health care services to Muslim countries which we have common culture and religion. Therefore this fact is a pride and honor for Bursa.

No food tastes like slimming!

Ersun Topal, M.D, specialist on General Surgery, affiliated to Doruk Health Group in Bursa, delivered a speech about ‘Obesity Surgery and Tube Stomach Operation’:

“WHAT IS MORBID OBESITY? Literally speaking, it refers to fatal level of obesity. It is a definition aimed at describing the fact the stored weight in the body reaches to the extreme, threatening the lifetime. It is calculated by dividing the body weight to height by square meter. If, Body Mass Index is bigger than 30, it connotes obesity, while if Body Mass Index is bigger than 40. Morbid obesity is defined.

HOW SURGICAL TREATMENT IS APPLIED FOR MORBID OBESITY? The probability of losing weight by ‘dieting and exercises’ when the subject is morbid obesis is unfortunately less than 2%. The surgical treatment of morbid obesity is achieved through two ways. The first way aims at decreasing the level of food consumed. The volume of abdomen is reduced with these kind of surgeries. Sleeve gastrectomy (tube stomach surgery) is the most effective surgery amongst other obesity surgeries. The second way aims at decreasing absorption the food consumed. Gastric bypass surgery is applied.

ign agent like stomach band and are hesitant to visit doctors for handling with them later.

HOW DOES SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY EFFECT? Sleeve gastrectomy reduces the volume of the stomach in the shape of banana or tube.

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The same standard surgery is rendered in Bursa, in Turkey and all over the world. Within the surgery varying length of small bowel is closed to food entrance and absorption. The sleeve gastrectomy can be applied to all fat patients needing treatment.

Hunger hormone secreted from the removed section of the stomach reduces to 70-80% .This hormone is called ‘ghrelin’. Patients feel less hungry between meals due to the reduce of ghrelin. A large number of patients states they feel less willing towards the foods they normally craved for before. Even they do not prefer to eat some foods because the taste changes. Among these are coffee, cola, some bakeries and cakes.

-In patients planned for stomach band, gastrectomy can be applied as an alternative.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY?

- Sleeve gastrectomy can be applied in patients who used stomach band but having troubles with. - Sleeve gastrectomy can be applied in patients who intimidate any fore-

Disabled children from abroad hosted in Bursa

- It can be reformed to any long affective surgery.

It doesn’t change the anatomy of digestion system. It doesn’t absorb foods in the digestion system. In two year’s time 60-80% of excessive fat is lost. In two years time comorbidities

fade up to 80-90%.

SUCCESS IN THE MORBID OBESITY UP TO 100% We can achieve 85-100% success in morbid obesity that is available for excessive fat people to the level of morbid obesity.

OBESITY SURGERY IS A TEAM JOB We have such a ‘obesity surgery team’ rarely found in Turkey together with Obesity Surgery consultant Gozde Gorgun and specialist dietitian about post –surgery of obesity Sevhan Uygun who takes intense care both pre and post stages of the application along with specialized doctors and operating surgical team. You can change your life style losing your extra weight after obesity surgery.”

Supported by Bursa governorship and municipality of Bursa and Osmangazi and an association for handicapped, “Happy Steps Children Festival” was held for the forth time in Sukaypark, Bursa on the occasion of the 23 April National Kids Festival. About 35 kids coming from Azerbaijan, Tataristan and Algeria were hosted along with other children from Bursa. General coordinator of the steps to hope for handicapped kids’ association Emel Yurdakos, said, “Our aim is to increase the awareness about the friendship among world kids having some handicaps on the occasion of this special day. Kids communicate with the language of their hearts among themselves. Early detection of their problems is as important as their rehabilitations. Only the conscious, knowledgeable and parents with patience and health experts can help them.” During the event, 500 balloons were freed to the sky with a motto “to the freedom” with an aim to bolster public awareness about the subject.

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Bursa Medical Park Hospital starts health tourism

Health tourism, which is undertaken by Bursa governor, local governments and health organizations is yielding tangible results. It seems that there is an important development for 200 foreigner patients in private hospital Medical Park. General Manager of Medical Park Assoc. Prof. Sedat Demir says that foreigner patients will leave 10 billion dollar currency to our country. We asked experienced manager about contribution of Health tourism:

Does Bursa become an important center of health? Why not? Our country infrastructure is strong also Bursa is one of three cities which has name about health tourism in the Ministry so this assertive situation might be true. I would like to say that Bursa Medical Park has taken important steps about health tourism before this situation there was a partnership and association among of Bursa governor, local governments and Health organizations. Works which are with Bursa Health Tourism Association have given results.

What are things that you understand about Health Tourism? How should it be defined? First of all we should understand that patients have treatment in other countries due to can not have treatment in their country with some reasons. I can answer which reasons can cause for this situations. Either health care might be too expensive or there might be insufficient problems about Hospital, equipment, technological infrastructure or there is no doctor for treatments or health care can not be reached easily. These problems are in even the biggest countries of the world. You might wait for intervention up to 6 months later which we can actualize in 24 hours.

Is there any problem about costs? Yes there is because social security in western countries is not comprehensive as our country. There are important problems about costs per unit, so foreigner countries are looking for solutions to be able to have treatment in any other country for their patients. This is one reason of the starting point for health

By Dr. Metin YURDAKOŞ Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Expert Private Emniyet Rommer Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center

Stroke rehabilitation

tourism. Another reason is that there is not health infrastructure. There are health infrastructure problems in Republics of Turkey, Middle east and Africa. They have demand for their patients to be treated in any other countries due to they can not have health service.

Are health infrastructure and costs attractive for foreigner patients in our country? Infrastructures are good in almost every point of The Turkey. There is not treatment that cannot be done in Bursa which is known in the world. Our costs are lower comparing with the western countries. In addition, quality of our physicians is quite high and we can provide this services in a short time it means we can respond whatever patients and their family need, in short time.

How does stroke happen?

What ‘s happening in steps of Tourism? There are commissions for foreigner patients to apply in their countries. We are in constant contact with these commissions moreover we have Medical Park offices in some countries. We evaluate patients’ applications from our offices and we provide both accommodation and treatment facilities for patients. In this point Bursa is becoming attractive place which has ottoman culture, historical richness and the location of sea and mountain.

Did not other countries explore this Health Tourism before? Of course they did. For example this health tourism was being done in India and Taiwan. There was restriction Dutch and English patients could not have treatment and tourism services as they demand. It was seen that we have advantages comparing with those countries. We can provide both good health care and we can work faster comparing with those countries however Bursa’s health organizations are preferred by patients of Arab, Middle West and Central Asia because we are close to these cultures. Each patient knows Bursa very well. We are already in UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE so different

agents started to bring their patients to us also we give accommodation in hotels to patients. Bursa Medical Park Hospital is one of the rare hospitals which can provide treatment for 3.step of treatments.

Can new hospitals be built for Bursa? Healthcare free zone is in Ministry agenda nowadays. Bursa is one of strong provinces about this issue and we support it in each step we can reach. When the Project is brought into action in these locations will be new health organizations. We anticipate that such a place can be created in location which we have hot water sources. In these locations, limiting factors of visa, tax and accommodation will be solved easily and approximately 200 patients come to our hospital due to technological infrastructure which can not be found everywhere, reasonable costs, combination of history and culture factors.in brief, partially our health tourism works have begun and continue.

There are two poles in our brain. The one on the right is responsible for the movements of our left arm and left leg and the other pole is responsible for our right arm and leg and our talking talent. As a result of disrupted blood inflow to these places, a stroke on the arm and leg at one side emerges. This is called stroke. This situation is often caused by vascular events which have two types: 1) Ischemic, that is, thromboembolism-based events: Getting damaged of brain tissue as a result of thromboembolism of brain veins. The reason of stroke is thromboembolism at approximately 80% of patients. 2) Bleeding-based events: It emerges with a sudden bleeding at people who have been suffering high blood pressure or have aneurysm at the shape of ballonet in their brains. What are the symptoms of stroke? Depending on which part of the brain was damaged and at what degree, there can be different clinical symptoms. The most important symptom is the paralyzation of half of the body either at right or left with the arm and leg. In addition to movability loss there could be various symptoms such as losses of conscious, detection, sense, talking disorder, sight disorder and memory loss. Who are under risk? Especially high blood pressure sufferers, patients such as diabetics and cardiovascular disease should be careful against stroke. Obesities and high-cholesterol, smoking, lack of physical movements, alcohol and some medicines increase the risk of stroke. Rehabilitation of stroke Since the state of a patient is better at strokes based on embolisms, the rehabilitation should start as early as the next day. For bleeding diseases it waits for a few days. In some cases operation could be necessary. The bleeding is followed up by methods such as tomography scan of the head or MR and necessary

prescription is generated. Since the patient has to stay in bed during this period, it would be important to be careful about his/her position in bed, his/her nutrition and urination release with special attention on not having any infection. What is the objective of rehabilitation and how is it made? The goal of rehabilitation is to bring the patients to their previous state. It is to decrease their physical losses and increase their functional

capacities. It is to provide them to stand up by themselves in their daily living activities and to increase their living qualities. Returning to their professions or establishing new jobs are also targeted at appropriate patients. It is very important that these type of appropriate patients should be taken care by expert teams at rehabilitation centers which have sufficient equipment. Rehabilitation is a longterm healing period. Since the case of every patient is different than others, it is not possible to determine a time at the beginning. Firstly it is targeted that the patient would regain the power to undertake daily basic needs by himself or herself. The patient’s developments in eating and drinking, putting on and off their clothes, toilette and cleaning affairs are closely observed. The patient is subjected to balance training with computerized and biofeedback featured equipment. Those patients who develop at sitting and standing are subjected to walking training. In addition to neurophysiologic exercises performed with the presence of a physiotherapist during walking training, the patient is subjected to robotic rehabilitation training as well. The robotic rehabilitation not only teaches walking to the patients but also stepping at orderly pattern. Although some patients adopt this very easily, walking process takes longer time at some others. These obstacles are overcome by programs utilized by experienced teams and they are led to activities by walking with support first and then without support. Sense training is offered for or movement and orientation disorders and decreased or increased sense problems occurred during stroke. For patients who lost senses, should be given protective sense training during rehabilitation. With the approaches of expert healing methods the eating and drinking talents are regained for stroke-hit individuals affected by neuromotor functions such as chewing and swallowing talents and tongue movements. The ergo-therapists apply cognitive rehabilitation in cases of the being affected of cognitive functions such as attention, memory, problem solving, expressing himself and praxis talents. The activities affected by cognitive disorders are determined and they are included rehabilitation program in order to recover. When the training of a patient in a rehabilitation salon is completed he or she is subjected to activities to adopt outdoor and home living conditions. Most of the patients regain the walking talent and can go back to their working life at the end of rehabilitation process. The patient has to attend the determined program eagerly and their families have to know the importance of this work.

What to do to protect from stroke? You should dedicate some time for yourself every day; you should have an orderly living and balanced nutrition principles.You should be careful against obesity and inactivity and the calorie-exercise balance has to be maintained. In addition to all these, you should regularly have check-ups to enjoy a life full of welfare, peace and pleasurable.

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The Kulliya of Emir Sultan It is located on a hill in the outskirts of Uludağ, in a quarter, which is also named as Emir Sultan. It was constructed by Hundi Fatma Hatun, who was the daughter of Yıldırım Bayezid and wife of Emir Sultan, during the early 15th century. It has a mosque, a tomb, a hammam, and a dervish lodge. Unfortunately today, the hammam is ruined and the dervish lodges is destroyed. There are six fountains around the mosque and a bigger fountain in the courtyard of the mosque. Kulliya of Emir Sultan is an important religious visit spot although it was not built for a sultan it is considered among as a “Sultan Kulliya”. Kulliya of Emir Sultan, in which religious ceremonies called as mevlut (birth) are held everyday, attracts attention of the tourists and it has also many visitors among the Bursa folk. The boys of Bursa are brought here before their circumcision ceremony; many young couples visit Tomb of Emir Sultan just before they get married. People who want to make a vow come here. Even the funeral ceremonies are being held in here. Having a special history and spiritual texture and being the most important place in Bursa regarding the tourism potential the Emir Sultan Mosque and Tomb of Emir Sultan are expected to preserve their historical and spiritual texture after the landscape planning and preservation efforts of Bursa Metropolitan Municipality. Emir Sultan was born in Buhara. He is also known as Es-Seyyid Semsuddin Mehmed bin Aliyyul Buhari. He migrated to Bursa in 1391 and married with Hundi Hatun, daughter of Yıldırım Bayezid.He died in 1429 because of black death. You can see the Kulliya of Yıldırım and even Yeşil Turbe (Green Tomb) from the hill

which hosts the Kulliya of Emir Sultan, which is the number one in the list of most visited mosques and tombs in Turkey

Emir Sultan Mosque It was constructed by Hundi Fatma Hatun, who was the daughter of Y›ld›r›m Bayezid and wife of Emir Sultan, during the early 15th century. There is a large courtyard at the entrance section of the mosque which has three gates. The mosque has the largest and most beautiful courtyard among the mosques in Bursa. The mosque was completely destroyed in 1795 but in 1804 Selim the III constructed it once again.

Emir Sultan Tomb The tomb of Emir Sultan, who lived three different reigns of three Ottoman Sultans and also who girded three Sultans (Yıldırım, Celebi Mehmed, and Muradthe Second) with sword, is located on the north of the Emir Sultan Mosque. Although it has lost its originality, some people still claims that the tomb of Emir Sultan is the fifth important place in Muslim world. The Tomb of Emir Sultan, who was named as Emir due to being a descend of Prophet Mohammed, is located at the center of the tomb behind brass bars. In addition there are four other tombs in the tomb which belong to Emir Ali, son of Emir Sultan, Hundi Hatun, his wife and his two daughters.

Kulliyas Of Bursa The Kulliya Of Yıldırım Yıldırım Bayezid built this kulliya (Complex of education, health and prayer) in 1390. It is one of the glorious monuments of Bursa. Outside of the kulliya’s mosque, there are kitchens, two Madrasas, a bath, an inn, the houses of the caretakers, a fountain a stall and a hospital. This kulliya, was in that period on a hill, in the east part of Bursa and was surrounded with a wall. To-

day, there is just the mosque, the bath, one Madrasa and the hospital left of it. The Kulliya of Yıldırım is the first important mosque that shows the Ottomans state culture, architectural culture and art history.

Darüşşifa Being one of the part of the Yıldırım Mosque, Darüşşifa was built by Yıldırım Bayezid in 1390. It was divided into as hospital and an asylum. It is accepted as the first hospital of the Ottomans. It is also said, that there was one head physician and three doctors. In the year 2001, it was repaired and restored to be used as an eye hospital.

Yıldırım Madrasa Located in the Yıldırım Mosque, this structure was built by Yıldırım Bayezid in 1390. It is the first Madrasa in the Ottoman Architecture, whose front was closed. The entry front was structured with Stones, the other parts were structured with bricks. That shows us, that Stones were more valuable than bricks. Structured from the stones of the entry front, others being made of brick show that they are more important than the others. Today it is being used as a dispensary and clinic.

Yıldırım Bayezid Tomb Located in the Yıldırım Mosque, this tomb was built by Emir Suleyman, son of Yıldırım Bayezid, in 1406. The architect is Ali, son of Huseyin. When Yıldırım Bayezid died, he was first burried in Aksehir, but then the he was brought to Bursa by his son Musa Celebi. It became the Pioneer of the other Ottoman tombs. It was restored in the years; 1669, 1825 and 1878. It experienced its greatest damage by the earthquake in 1855. There is also the tomb of his son Isa Celebi is there.

Yeşil Kulliya The Kulliya, which is located in Yeşil quarter, was built in 1419 by Celebi Sultan Mehmed. The Yeşil Turbe (Green Tomb) and the Yeşil Cami (Green Mosque), which are located within the kullliya are symbols of rebirth of Ottomans after the defeat of Ankara War with Timur. Consists of a mosque, a Madrasa, a tomb, a hammam, and an alms house, the difference of the Kulliya is that the elements of the complex built independently.

Yıldırım Mosque The mosque was constructed on a hill in Yıldırım region by Yıldırım Bayezid (1389 - 1402) around

1390s. It is one of the most brilliant monuments of Bursa The “Bursa Style” was first time used in this mosque. According to Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi: “We encounter with a matured building. Workmanship is at its peak. The combination of the elements of the building, transition between surfaces, conjunctions between cut Stones and coating, and labor on every element; all of them are perfectly managed” (Early Ages of Ottoman Architecture).

Yeşil Mosqu The mosque was built in 1419 with the order of Celebi Sultan Mehmed. A reverse T-Planned building is the one of the most beautiful buildings of Bursa as well Turkey. Some Byzantine materials had been used for it. The facade over the main door is one of the most beautiful samples of the Turkish stone carving. The Interior walls of the mosque and the columns are completely covered with tiles. One of the most perfect examples of the tiling is the altar. With its geometrical and flower figures the altar is the one of the most outstanding part of the mosque. The window covers are the best examples of that era. There are very thin ornamentations,

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Yeşil Tomb

flooring of the street. The framework of the upper floor is filled with half-timbered wall and covered with tiles in the Ottoman style. It is not possible to see the inside of the house from outside. Upper floors are decorated with bay windows.

Yeşil Tomb was built in 1421. Regarded as one of the symbols of Bursa, the Yeşil Tomb is like the continuance of Seljuk cupolas. There are several rooms under the tomb which was based on an eight cornered area and covered by single dome that sits on an elevated trimmer.

Two types of layout generally are observed for Cumalıkızık houses. One of these is the exterior courtyard surrounded by a high wall built by rubbles. Passing through this courtyard, one will encounter the entrance door, which prevents direct connection to the street.

which can never be seen in other mosques. There is a fountain within the mosque. The single-piece sprinkler of the fountain is unique.

Both inside and outside of the tomb is covered with colored glaze and ceramics in hexagonal or rectangular shape. The walls are in turquoise colored hexagonal plate shape ceramics and between them there are medallions made of ceramics. At the center of the tomb, on an octagonal bedplate elevated one level from the ground, the tomb of Mehmed the First is located. It is closed with a colored in yellow, white, blue, and indigo colored border. On the embossed ceramics it writes as Celebi Sultaan Mehmed and a short introductory word.

Madrasa Of Sultaniye Yeşil It was the most important madrasa of Bursa in the Ottoman era. The madrasa, which is located in Yeşil quarter, was built in 1419 by Celebi Sultan Mehmed. It is a part of the Yeşil Kulliya. The Madrasa of Sultaniye was an educational institution in which the highest ranked theologians and Islam academicians worked. It is one of the most beautiful madrasas in Bursa There are thirteen rooms,

one principal room, entrance cell and restrooms are located around a courtyard. There are cloisters in front of the rooms which are covered by a dome and vault. The building has been serving as the Museum of Turkish Islamic Works since 1975.

Cumalıkızık Cumalıkızık is a village that has preserved the texture of residential Ottoman architecture until the present time. These historic houses are now protected. Cumalıkızık was one of the first places settled by the Ottomans when they moved into Bursa. There are totally 270 historical houses in the village. Some of these houses are in process of restoration and maintenance. 180 of them are still being used as dwellings. Generally, the houses in Cumalıkızık have three story rooms; used by relatives to share them together in total cooperation and harmony. This village has 270 houses, which 180 of them are still in use. The privacy of the families was the primary concern during the construction of these houses. The ground floor, courtyard and the first floors of these houses were built by rubble and wooden walls in total accordance with the

However there is no courtyard in the second type of these houses. Living section of the house is directly available through the street door. The outside wall is strengthened with a horizontal beam embedded to it and there is also lightning and ventilation. The living area enables accessibility to the inner courtyard, stable, storages and stairs. The entrance door of the house is opened to both directions. These wings of the door generally made of walnut tree are attached by wrought iron braces and nails with large knobs. Door handles and knockers are also of wrought iron. The construction of the doors serves for the purpose of easiness while carrying the products and vehicles of agriculture inside. The living section is accessible from the outer courtyard or directly from the street surrounded by wooden columns on which the upper floor is perched on. The ground is paved with flat and wide stones. Living

section is the most widely used part of the Cumalıkızık houses. The productions which are reaped are temporarily stored, separated and arranged there. Chestnuts are shelled there. Wedding ceremonies are arranged there. Also the supplies of the heat are carefully stowed there. If the living section is higher than normal, a mezzanine will be constructed to store and keep the materials for a long time here. The depots, kitchen, lavatory, stable, hut and stove are on the ground floor, where the most of houseworks were carried out. The first floor with a lower height, in where the bedrooms, siting rooms, baths and stoves are located and the households were resided during the winter months. The second floor is used during the summer months. Along the hall, there are rooms, eyvan (a vaulted room with one side open to the court), doorsteps and sofas. The main room is the most carefully arranged on the upper floor. The flooring of the house is made by using beams and veneers nailed on them. Heating of the houses are provided by stoves. The roofs with two or four inclinations are covered by the tiles of the Ottoman/ Turkish style.

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BEBKA promotes Bursa, Eskisehir and Bilecik provinces Bursa Eskisehir Bilecik Development Agency (BEBKA) has been promoting the the business and cultural attractions of the three cities all over the world. means of proper and effective use of sources. The main goal is to reduce intraregional development differences by providing coordination and cooperation among public sector, private sector, civil society and universities. In accordance with this purpose, 2010-2013 Bursa Eskisehir Bilecik Region Plan has been prepared determining regional priorities by means of scientific methods and participatory approach. Within the scope of this regional plan, a model was generated that will shape development in terms of project financial aids, training requirements, investment and promotion opportunities.

Bursa, which hosts hundreds of multinational companies, is a dynamic market and a global investment destination. The city is attracting all kinds of foreign direct investments such as green-field and high-tech investments. It offers great opportunities especially for market-seeking and efficiency-seeking investors. Domestic market with high growth potential, access to global markets, qualified labor force, developed production and transportation infrastructure and industrial clusters increase the competitiveness of Bursa. Bursa Eskisehir Bilecik Development Agency (BEBKA) has been promoting the city’s business and cultural attractions all over the world. It has been supporting several key projects in Bursa. BEBKA was established by the council of ministers decision, dated 14 July 2009. It has an effective management structure with an administrative board at the highest level of representation made up of governors, mayors, provincial general council presidents and chamber of industry and commerce presidents of the provinces in the region; a broad cooperation, participation and consultation network with the representatives of universities, public institutions, private sector and non-governmental organizations in the region; and a strong executive organ with qualified personnel that are competent and experienced in their fields.

Tamer Degirmenci General Secretary of BEBKA

BEBKA is an institution that directs development in the provinces of Bursa, Eskişehir and Bilecik by enhancing coordination and cooperation among public sector, private sector and non-governmental organizations; offering local-oriented solutions for local problems and promoting sustainable development by

Development agency supports projects and activities that offer solutions for sectorial and thematic problems in the region within the frame of strategies and priorities presented in the regional plan. Development Agency supports consist of two sections as financial and technical supports. Direct financial supports granted by BEBKA include projects supported by call for proposal method, research and planning studies with critical importance supported by direct activity method and large scale-projects supported by guided project support method that will accelerate regional development. On the other hand, technical support may be provided for the purpose of strengthening civil society in the region, developing local and rural capacities.

DUBAI-For 21 years, Arabian Travel Market has provided an ideal place to do face to face business with companies from around the globe. Arabian Travel Market 2015 promises to be bigger and better than ever before. This year, our spotlight theme is Family Travel. There will also be a focus on Travel Technology Business Travel, Luxury and Wellness.

life in both historic, cultural and cost of living aspects. The city offers a multitude of shopping opportunities including a large market where fresh produce is a Arabian Travel Market goes from plenty and offered at reasonable strength to strength. 2015 is set prices. Arabian Travel Market to be even bigger with another is growing year on year with new hall being added. Be part of expansion into Hall 6 in 2015. our leading tourism event to take The officials of the Exhibition your business to another level. declared, “We will continue to split the floor plan into zones This year, Bursa will be repand colors representing different resented officially at Arabian geographical locations and areas Travel Market (Exhibition of of the industry.” Products and Services related to the Travel Industry) which “The Dubai International Conwill take place in Dubai, United vention and Exhibition Centre Arab Emirates from 04.05.15 will witness the dynamism and to 07.05.15. Bursa offers a high success of the Exhibition once standard of living and quality of more,” they added.

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Elemeği offers efficient solutions in architecture and interior design “It is our objective to maximize the customer satisfaction by producing efficient solutions in Architecture and Interior Design, Construction work, Project-Management-Application, Furniture Production and Restoration fields,” says interior architect Mehmet Aksoz, chairman of the board of Elemegi. Established in early 2004, Elemeği operates in well-equipped integrated manufacturing facility with the latest technological machinery and professional architectural staff. From custom production to boutique production, Elemeği continues working in its facility which contains required furniture, textile, metal processing workshops parallel to constantly evolving concept. By following the developments and with its dynamic structure, the company has established partnerships in the international market which helped them to broaden their horizon and vision and leaded Elemeği to provide services in various fields of architecture. We made an exclusive interview with interior architect Mehmet Aksöz, chairman of the board of Elemeği about the success story of the company.

How long has Elemegi been active? Officially it was founded in 2004, however, my academic work life has a longer past than that. While producing house furniture and kitchens and selling them we decided to expand our field of activities to bigger projects in abroad. Following the revisions we made in our production facilities and personnel, we got serious works in Russia and Azerbaijan.

We employ 370 people, 80 of them are white-collar workers. Metal processing workshop of 2 thousand sqm is recently built and now operational.

team, working in our Bursa factory, have increased our design power and they realized general designs of Hilton Garden Inn Izmir hotel.

Recently, we signed a contract with Italian designer Slobodan Krivokapic, Manufacturing is made in our factory of who designed Celik Palas and Montania 10 thousand sqm in Bursa Org. Ind. Zone. hotels as our sub-contractor. He and his

Will you tell about your working process with investors and operators in the projects you engaged? Do you engage in the placement and space design works?

ports accounts 60-70 % of our manufacturing. In line with our capacity, we aimed to increase it to 80 % in 2015.

Will you tell us about your manufacturing and design works?

Mehmet Aksoz, Chairman of The Board of Elemegi

serial production and 2- boutique production. Depending on the nature of work, both men and machines are changed.

First stage of the process is to analyze the space, sizing and measuring, and clearing the demands. Then comes manufacturing and assemble stages. Since the projects cover larger spaces, all phases of project Yes we do. A customer who only demands should be managed at high precision us to furnish rooms for his hotel, may and highest care, including the planning, then to offer us to design their general staging of works, coding, delivery schedliving spaces. Besides hotel designs, we have other projects for façade and indoor ules etc. designs of stores, factories, villas, restauOur master designer has to inspect the rants etc. space to be furnished at the beginning. Needs and wants of the customer are Management of projects depends on the learned in this stage and some sketches expectations of customers, our capacity of production etc. We can easily adapt of are drown then approved by the customer. processes to the needs of our customer. At the last stage 3D visuals, choice of materials are completed as soon as possible.

What have you to say on your quality and standards? What are your recent projects you realized? Our firm has ISO 9001:2008 quality management system certificates. Other requirements for OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 standards are being documented and about in three months it is expect-

In 2014 we completed 68 projects, large or small. Some of them are, Rixos Myria Yalta hotel, Vakko shops, Beymen stores,

ed to be completed following official audits. We employ three experts in our quality department. They carry the tests and controls products in each station as required by the standards. Product quality and customer satisfaction are important issues in our firm. An UR-GE department was established to ergonomic and quality specs of our products.

Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent hotel, Adana Divan hotel, Dedeman Bostanci, Lykia World hotel, Baku 61 restaurant, Minola store Italy, Carhatt London and Berlin, Gloria Jeans restaurant.

Owned by Robert De Niro, Nobu Restaurant project was made. 2 concept shops of Bvlgari brand were made on turnkey basis, besides other projects that were completed on time including Dior, Celine, Casadei and Tiffany. One of the largest shopping malls, Vegas 1 and Vegas 2 has been made partly by us as project management, some of the wood and metal works. The university campus project on 1.5 million sqm. land in Vladivostok, Russia where APEC summit was held is our largest project we have managed. We have assumed many important projects in the country including Radisson Blu Pera hotel, Marriott Sisli hotel, Rixos Tekirova hotel, Fethiye Lykia world, Kusadasi, Ramada hotel, Inera Hotel, Dedeman Bostanci hotel, Rixos Myria Yalta hotel, Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent hotel, Adana Divan hotel, Florya Crown Plaza hotle, Hilton Garden Inn Izmir hotel. At the same time, we completed stores and restaurants of some brands including Vakko Beymen, Starbucks, Gloria Jeans, Aqua Florya, Zorlu Center, Akasya Mall.

Will you provide info about activities of your firm? 70% of our production works is consists of hotels. Besides these, shopping malls, restaurants, and some special projects about manufacturing, design and project management works are carried out. Ex-

What projects are working on in 2015?

Presently, we are working on landscape Products produced in our door line have design of 3 villas in Cengelkoy, Istanbul, certified by TSE-Kayseri laboratory as fire for a Saudi prince, Turkmenistan project resistant doors. with Polimeks construction, Sekerbank What kind of process is subject headquarter project, Larapark Cyprus for your special and boutique project, Etiler PS lounge, Florya Crown Plaza and Hilton Garden Inn Izmir promanufacturing? jects. 2 hotel projects in Sudan and Saudi We approach our projects in two ways. 1- Arabia are about to be finished.

Property

Dijitalemlak serves in Bursa and its region for 12 years

May 2015

Increasing interest for Ostas projects by Arab investors

Dijitalemlak serves in Bursa and its region for 12 years in the issues of buying – selling and development for many domestic and foreign investors. “We are at your service with our professional team in the issue of supplying Plot, Land, House and Business Offices. • The services and solutions we offer aim to allow our customers to reach their targets very quickly and easy, to increase their efficiency, growth and make up more value-added. We also listen to customers, change and renew according to their needs and expectations. • As position the province of Bursa is located just at the center of three big cities of Turkey in the Marmara Region. It is fourth big city following Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. • Bursa has a unique richness in the aspect of nature. It takes about 20 minutes to Uludag and Marmara Sea (the district of Mudanya), 1,5 hours to Istanbul. • With regard to its stance, Bursa has been in the first choice of foreigners due to growing quickly in the sectors of tourism, industry, housing estate in recent years. • Bursa contributes greatly to swiftly growing Turkey’s economy with the number of 25 Industrial Zones primarily including automotive, textile and food.

• Having nearly 3 million of population, Bursa is expected to have 6-7 million of population in the upcoming 10-15 years. Paralleling this growth the city has urged foreign investors turned their eyes to Bursa. We are also indifferent to the interest in Bursa, developing our system and portfolio according to the demands from the investors, we respond to their needs in the quickest and truest way. • Dijitalemlak Services: Commercial Property, Commercial Property & Offices, Industry & Logistic, House, Hotels & Hotel Lands, Industry and Warehousing Facility, Commercial Land, Industry and Warehousing Lands, Sales and Rental Offices, Properties for Sales and Rental, Lands for Sales, Industrial and Warehousing Facility for Sales, Factory for Rental and Sales, Logistic Facility for Rental and sales… Lands, Plots and Housing Estate Lands in terms of investment, zoned lands for villas; Tourism zoned lands, representing the related side in negotiations, Marketing/Renting, Looking for Developed Estate.

General manager of Ostas construction Osman Ozelif informed about their recent project in Gorukle addressing families seeking accommodation in the province. He said, “Our project has social facilities, fitness halls, pools, locals and playgrounds aiming for families. We are developing a new project in the region. We seek investors from Arabian countries. There is a growing demand from Kuwait and Dubai for individual houses. We have talks for wholesale of the accommodations. We got serious order from Kuwaiti buyers. We are joining our forces with Demirkent company. We got land for the project. We hope that our project will be operational by the end of the year. We have also other projects in several locations in Besevler and Mudany regions.”

Bursa, leader in real estate sales

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Harun Calimlioglu It was reported that besides domestic investments, government officials, workers and foreign investors also interested in real estate sales in Bursa, an alternative location of Istanbul. Harun Calimlioglu, chairman of a real estate company pointed out that the transport opportunities are increasing between Bursa and Istanbul. He said, “Infrastructure investments have reduced travel time from Istanbul to Bursa. The travelling time is going to shortened by one hour. Road, air and sea transport facilities between the two cities are improving. This makes real estate prices higher and higher. Auto test center in Yenisehir is one of the six centers in the world.”

Yenisehir blinks to real estate investors A real estate advisor in Yenisehir , Sabri Kurun, forecasts rising profits in real estate investments in the province. He said, “We are expecting new investors to our province. Ongoing projects including automotive test center, organized industrial zone, high-speed railroad and the third bridge connection in Gebze are increasing value of investments in Yenisehir. Investors from Arab and European countries are coming to Yenisehir. Its fresh air, agriculture and livestock sector, international airport, free trade zone in Gemlik are all contributing value on the assets in Yenisehir.”

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May 2015

Please mention “Made in Bursa” when writing to advertisers

EV & STIL (Home&Style) Fair in Bursa Bursa chamber of industry and trade (BTSO) and TUYAP Bursa cooperated to organize “Home & Style” fair in Bursa, May 28-31, 2015. UTIB will support the event and Contract Business magazine will efficiently be distributed at the show. to meet them with national and international brands under a concept. Burkay, “Main topics will be design, trend, home identity and architecture in Bursa during fair.”

“More than 30 fairs will held in Bursa by BTSO cooperation” General Manager of TÜYAP Bursa Fuarcılık A.Ş. İlhan Ersözlü, pointed out

Bursa Chamber of Industry and Trade (BTSO) is going to lead for “Home & Textile Fair”, one of the most important activities from 28th to 31st of May 2015 within “Bursa Innovation and Design Meetings”. Chairman of BTSO İbrahim Burkay said, “This fair will be the first home & style fair held in Turkey and added, “Bursa will be the center of home fashion.” All kinds of home objects from home textile to furniture, lightening to glassware, sanitary ware to bath and garden equipment will be available in this particular fair which is first in its field. Fair starts out with a motto; “Every object to turn dream homes into reality would be in this fair.” Many local and foreign designers, craftsmen would perform various live shows and academic presentations during the fair.

“Home & Style Fair to add value to Bursa” Chairman of BTSO İbrahim Burkay, stated that Turkey’s average total export value per kilogram is 1.68 dollars, while that number outgrow to more than 11 dollars for home textile sector and said, “Home &

their cooperation with BTSO and said; “We will make Bursa one of the key trade fair destinations in Turkey with this cooperation. Bursa will be Turkey’s center for trade fairs with more than 30 fairs annual. We targeted to make this fair equivalent to the ones in Italy and France. “

Design summit will tag the event Fair will be held from 28th to 31st of May 2015 within Bursa Innovation and Design Meetings in TÜYAP Bursa. Furniture, home textile, lightening equipment, bathroom equipment, decoration objects, garden furniture, glassware, sanitary ware,

and craft ware will take part in fair. There will be trend areas to figure talking about trend with the craftsmen. Designers and craftsmen will have workshops. Design summit will be on along the fair. Procurement committees will join from Dubai, Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, and Kuwait. Also, member of board of BTSO Şakir Umutkan, Chairman of Mobi Mobilya İç Mimarlık Raşit Karaaslan, Chairman of Plan B Mimarlık Seçil Bulcan Ürküt and trend expert and designer Özlem Yan Devrim attended the press launch.

Style Fair Project aims to raise the bar of the role-model manufacturers to add value. Bursa will be the center of home fashion”

“To rank among the top-3 worldwide” Organizing fair matters a lot for cities in every aspects stated Burkay and added; “Fairs planning to held in Bursa will always be on top three; locally Turkey-wide or internationally world-wide. Fairs will add value and wealth to entire South Marmara region. This is the main goal of the home and textile fair.”

“Home & Style Fair to set new trends” İbrahim Burkay, said that Home & Style Fair would become a trend setter for interior home design and decoration in three years. He invited all designers and architects to the fair and added the fair addresses for the middle and upper middle class consumers

İnegöl met with design

Established by IMOS, Inegol Furniture Industrialists Association, and with the support of BEBKA, Bursa, Eskisehir, Bilecik development agency the first design center in Turkey, “Inegol workshop furniture design and competition center” was made operational. The center and IMOS services building were inaugurated by the participations of Huseyin Sahin, Bursa MP, Abdulkadir Karlik, deputy mayor of Bursa, Ali Akca, Inegol governor, Alinur Aktas, Inegol mayor, Metin Anil, chairman of trade and industry chamber, Ahmet Gulec, MOSFED chairman, Hasan Cepni, president of BEBKA, representatives of political parties, chambers, associations, industrialists, furniture companies and other guests.

Major young designers in Turkey have contributed in this important event including Sule Koc, Mehmet Altay, Esat Fisek, Yilmaz Zenger and Can Ozcan, of Izmir Economy University industrial design department and world famous designer Karim Rashid. He met with furniture producers and designers in Inegol.

In the center, prospective designers will work to improve their design effectiveness through training programs and technical visits to design studios.

“There is growing need for original designs in order to be a brand in the world. Analog era designers are becoming out of date, while the future is so bright for digital era designers. Having a great ability to produce furniture, Inegol is seemed running behind in designs as the product catalogues has shown. But, we should not be pessimists. This is a great step forward and we need more courageous efforts in this regard.” he concluded.

In line with the inauguration of the center the first event named “I’m Design” was also started. During the event, major Turkish designers and students of arts in several universities will meet and discuss about designing furniture.

Karim Rashid will build a mosque in Inegol Expressed his impressive experience with world famous Sultanahmet mosque in Istanbul, known as Blue Mosque, Karim Rashid informed that he will design a great mosque in Inegol. “I happily accepted the offer to build a beautiful mosque here in Inegol. We will begin on this project soon.” he said.

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May 2015

The 6 year of golden era at Metropolis Arab tourists and th

Pointing out that the authorization for historical heritage and their activities at this regard, succeeded Bursa to be taken into the Unesco World Heritage List, Bursa Metropolitan Mayor Altepe said, “We also want full authorization on investments for environment, Uludag and beaches. We don’t need money but authority. I believe there is no other city asking only authority to work harder but not money.” Elected two terms one after another Recep Altepe, Metropolitan Mayor of Bursa, explained the projects they succeeded and the projects they have planned to carry the city to the future at a press conference. Pointing out that they were one of the best municipalities in the country from the standpoints of financial criteria such as budget, investment power and debt ratio, Mayor Altepe said they had continued to stride with “quality and peace city Bursa” slogan. Pointing out that the authorization for historical heritage and their activities at this regard, succeeded Bursa to be taken into the Unesco World Heritage List, Bursa Metropolitan Mayor Altepe said, “We also want full authorization on investments for environment, Uludağ and beaches. We don’t need money but authority. I believe there is no other city asking only authority to work harder but not money.”

Bursa is a history capital city Stressing that the identity of “historical capital city” is the most important feature of Bursa, Mayor Altepe the investments they made in last six years made historical heritage of our ancestors brilliant and embellished the city. He said they have come to the end in wall restorations remaining only Kaplica Kapi, Altepe said their project to restore Bey Sarayi was also ready. He detailed that the new Army House would be built by Metropolitan Municipality and the old one would be destroyed to remove the Bey Sarayi from under the old building. He also said they had been continuing to stand up the historical heritage in towns of the province mentioning sunk basilica Iznik Lake and its importance in our culture as well as in Christian culture.

Ottoman history museum in Bursa Reminding the fact that they have been working for Bursa to get the tourism potential share it deserves, Mayor Altepe said they had opened 7 museums up to now and have been working to open 7 others. Pointing out that the activities had been continuing for Ottoman History Museum projected to be

established on an area of approximately 10 thousand square meters, the Mayor said, “Our teams scanned the world at this issue, too. We will apply the best examples in this museum wherever we see. There will be rail system transportation in the museum and visitors will see the Ottoman history as if they see and live it.” Stating that an investment worth of TL 30 million of which 20 million came from municipalities, had been made and the remaining 70 billion amount would be realized by the contributions of BTSO and TUBITAK, Mayor Altepe said that the new building which would host different places as vertical wind tunnels and weightless environment.

Time for thermal tourism Underlining the fact that the thermal resources of Bursa have not been used properly until now, Mayor Altepe said, “We have 900 thermal water reaching 300 liter-depth in city center. Animal leathers would be washed with this water until recently. We have now continuing our works to get benefits of these waters which have recovering features. Our expro-

Healthcare for all

investors prefer Bursa

Turkey’s increasing influence over the Middle East of late has also resulted in positively affecting the tourism sector. It is this increase in numbers of tourists from the Middle East that has brought along with it a peaked interest by tourism investors. priation activities at tanner region have been continuing. Tolon factory gave its place and the discussions with Malcılar have been under progress. If they are resulted we will start our works there too. Not only in city center we have been continuing our activities for thermal works in Harmancık, Büyükorhan, Orhaneli, Gemlik, Orhangazi, İnegöl and mustafakemalpaşa towns. We will put our projects about sea and lake coasts one after another into progress. Why not Bursa’s coasts become as the coasts of Barcelona? We are ready to invest. We started the Mudanya coastal project. We will push the button for projects for all of our coasts one after another.”

The transportation links to and from Bursa are excellent with the Bursa Yenisehir Airport just 20 minutes from the city centre plus numerous daily bus and ferry services between Bursa and Istanbul making it easy to commute if required. There is a demand from overseas investors in particular the Arabs who are keen to own a second home in Bursa, which will only prove beneficial to the country’s economy and will also add value and credibility to the area.

Real estate investment in Bursa is one of the first choice for Arab tourists and investors. Apart from being an industrial city, Bursa has a rich culture and tourism capacity that attract Arabs. Many Arab businessmen are planning to make investments in housing and shopping mall projects. Almost thirty percent of tourists going on holiday at the Uludağ ski resort are Arabs. Bursa has been a profitable place for Arab investors for many years. Arab and Middle Eastern tourism has gained momentum. Bursa is the home of outstanding natural beauty, which is complemented by its vast historical background. Bursa has a lot to brag about particularly as this province was the first Ottoman capital, and as such is endowed with an array of monuments, mosques, tombs, baths, etc. Both city and mountain hotels show full occupancy. Arab tourists could be seen at nearly all hotels. Arabs used to prefer to visit Uludağ and Bursa in summer. months. Now the picture is different. If you go to Uludağ, you will see that there are Arabs spending daily or weekly holidays.