Turan Emeksiz will be a part of the cultural heritage. Serving as a ship-hotel in Mudanya Güzelyalı Marina, will be kept alive as a museum in Istanbul.
The Turan Emeksiz passenger ferry, which was purchased by Bursa Mudanya Municipality after retiring while serving on Istanbul City Lines for more than 46 years and serving as a ship hotel since 2008, was sent off to Istanbul to be kept alive as a museum, hospital, or library.
The Turan Emeksiz passenger ferry was transferred to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality to be used as a museum, hospital, or library, with the decision taken at the ordinary assembly meeting of Mudanya Municipality in October.
Mudanya Mayor Hayri Türkyılmaz said at the farewell ceremony, it is a great honor for us to be a pioneer in keeping the ship named after Turan Emeksiz, one of the symbols of the freedom struggle, who was killed in Beyazıt Square on April 28, 1960, as a cultural property. I would like to thank our Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, City Lines General Manager Sinem Dedetaş, Mudanya Port Manager Veysel Yaşar for their support in the works, and the technical team that carried out the relocation process.
The passenger ferry built in the Glasgow Port of England in 1961 was named after Turan Emeksiz, who was the target of a police bullet in the protest demonstrations he participated in at Istanbul University in 1960. She retired while serving on the Kadıköy-Eminönü line as the City lines Ferry. While Mudanya Municipality bought the ship, she has served as a 4-storey floating hotel by a private company at the Guzelyalı Yacht Harbor until today.
