I thought I had taken a really bad step towards everything by entering Batman, which I had been wondering about for years, with the terrible face of Batman Airport.
The airport, which says hello to civil aviation under military control, is operated in terrible conditions.. For someone who comes to Batman by air and for the first time, the image of Batman in the mind gets negative points and leads to prejudice.
Foreign PLATES
Originally from Silvan but Batman With the warm welcome of my friend Caner and his family, who lives in Istanbul, I try to erase the scary images at the airport from my mind.
As I see the luxury vehicles around, I feel like I’m on Bağdat Street in Istanbul.. It also surprises me that most luxury vehicles have 06, 34 or 33 license plates.
For a moment, I ask myself what is Batman’s license plate. very hard to see vehicle. When I ask the reason for this, the answer comes immediately: “There is no intercity travel with a vehicle with a Batman license plate.. You are stopped multiple times at every police station. That’s why everyone here drives vehicles with Istanbul, Ankara or Mersin license plates.”
Istanbul’s statistics on Ankara’s number of vehicles are lies!
There are so many vehicles with foreign license plates. that. I get weird when I see 72 license plates.
At the exit of the military airport, the modern face of the city is seen as a bus station.. Shining with its contemporary architecture, the bus station is on the Batman-Diyarbakır road.. But it would not be correct to say that it is used a lot.. Buses usually move on their own. Since Batman is located on the transit route between many cities, it is very natural to see the vehicles loading and unloading passengers on the road.
While we are on our way to Batman city centre, we watch on Diyarbakır Street.
This street, which is the most important street of the city, , stays in the part of the city where it grows slowly. Just as Adana is growing towards the north, Batman is developing towards the north on the axis of Diyarbakır Street.
SHOPPING SYSTEM
Batman’s single and largest shopping center We are in World Mar, which is the city’s busiest square.
The shopping center, located in the busiest square of the city, is operated exactly like Batman.
The shopping center, which only looks like shopping centers in big cities from the outside, is a complete neighborhood from the moment you enter. The mall scares you with its logic.
Except for the top floor of the shopping mall, which does not contain different stores, all departments from clothing to food are operated by a single operator as a neighborhood market.
The majority of women wearing headscarves among the employees. And it doesn’t escape my attention.
Always familiar brands are on the shelves.. If you ask if there is an investor from Batman, it has not been fortunate for the people of Batman to be on these shelves.. Investments have always returned, since the people of Batman did not take care of the products of Batman. The model of the oil well, located in the square with its veins, looks very aesthetic.. According to the rumors, most of the people did not know what this symbol was.
The municipality of DTP did not have any visible work on the city. Impossible to walk on streets other than main streets. Neither asphalt is like asphalt, there is neither a pavement nor a landscaping.. There is a lot of work to be done on the streets.
There are many eating places, bank branches, hotels and shops on Diyarbakir Street.. I am amazed when I see Mado which is the most popular place. Such an investment has been made that it is impossible to find such a place in metropolitan cities.
Right now, I am listening to the story of the amusement park’s first arrival in Batman from Serdar Ağabey…
The first amusement park to Batman When it was founded, Serdar Brothers got into bumper cars.. Naturally, they started having fun by crashing into other cars.. They were surprised when the people in the other car started to get angry.. The funniest was the people who apologized when they hit the car.. This is how the people of Batman welcomed the amusement park.
Serdar Brother tells us so sincerely that we can’t help ourselves, we lie on the floor laughing.
His PAST IS REMEMBERED WITH BAD EVENTS
Like every city in the east, Batman has experienced undesirable events in the past.. During the state of emergency, especially in the 90s, there was a scourge of Hezbollah in the city.. Batman was a city where women could hardly walk alone on the street and all social life ended at 3 pm.
Houses were often burned down.. It is not difficult to guess how bad the conditions were when you hear from the people who lived in the city at that time.
Fortunately, now people can sit outside in cafes and chat until late at night.
The first story about Batman These are my impressions, I would like to spend more time in Batman, but the task does not wait…
I am on the road again.