Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer's work in line with the goal of breaking the shell of İzmir and integrating the city with the world has paid off. Atalayar Magazine, one of Europe's influential magazines, took İzmir to its cover just before the new tourism season.
Izmir reminded itself to Europe before the new tourism season. Atalayar Magazine, of Spanish origin, featured İzmir on its cover in its 39th issue. The magazine, which is published in English, Spanish and French, sends 7 pages to İzmir through tourism opportunities and cultural values, and 6 pages to İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor. Tunç Soyer He devoted a page to his interview and one page for the cooperation of the European Journalists' Association (AEJ) with the Izmir Journalists' Association.
“Izmir, history and modernity”
The Izmir file bears the signature of Javier Fernandez Arribas, Atalayar Editor-in-Chief and President of the European Union of Journalists. In his article titled “İzmir, history and modernity”, Arribas reminded that Turkey offers countless opportunities to tourists beyond the myth of Istanbul and civilizations and crossroads between East and West, and said, “With its 8.500 years of history, İzmir allows you to experience all the steps of human history from the Neolithic Age to the present. ” he uses. Stating that Izmir is “accepted as the birthplace of Homer, the author of the Iliad and Odyssey, the jewels of universal literature”, Arribas talked in detail about Bergama and Ephesus on the UNESCO World Heritage Main List and Kemeraltı and Gediz Delta on the UNESCO Tentative List. In his article, he emphasizes the weather, climate, people, nature and cultural heritage of İzmir. Describing İzmir as a junction point where trade routes and different cultures meet, Arribas expresses that he sees the people of İzmir as the creators and supporters of commerce, democracy, medicine, philosophy, Mediterranean gastronomy and the origin of belief.
6 pages to President Soyer
Arribas also includes an interview with President Soyer as part of the Izmir file. The talk titled “We have to make cities resilient in the world” touches on many issues, from the importance of Izmir in the Mediterranean to tourism, from the pandemic to the economic crisis, from national politics to the European Union. Among the prominent words of President Soyer in the interview are the following: “You don't have to see nature as a resource. We must be in harmony with nature, we must respect it. If you have this perspective, the conflict between economy and ecology is over.”
They had visited Izmir in September.
Journalists from Spain's leading press organizations, including Javier Fernandez Arribas, who signed the file, hosted Prof. Dr. He visited İzmir last September for the last link of the international workshop “Communicating Tourism: Building Bridges Between Cities and Cultures”, which was organized under the leadership of L. Doğan Tılıç, but mostly online due to the pandemic. Within the scope of the visit, the journalists toured the UNESCO sites of İzmir, introduced the book “Communicating Tourism: Loving starts with getting to know” published as part of the workshop, and the Mayor of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç Soyer and İzmir Journalists Association President Dilek Gappi.
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