Turkish mayor under fire for welcoming tourists in Greek

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Turkish mayor under fire for welcoming tourists in Greek
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Edirne mayor Recep Gürkan

The mayor of Edirne, a province near Turkey’s borders with Greece and Bulgaria, has come under fire for conveying greetings for the new year in multilingual posters in which the city’s name was written in Greek as Adrianopolis, the Hürriyet Daily News reported.

Posters welcoming the new year in Turkish, Greek and Bulgarian were hung all over stores in Turkey’s northwestern province of Edirne, which has been attracting more tourists from the two neighboring countries in the last six months.

“We hope that 2019 will bring peace and happiness to the world,” Mayor Recep Gürkan was quoted as saying in one of the posters on the city’s central Saraçlar Avenue.

Read more at: https://www.turkishminute.com/2019/01/04/turkish-mayor-under-fire-for-welcoming-tourists-in-greek/