Choose Mersin,

because Mersin is a warm and beautiful coastal town which is like a gleaming pearl positioned on the south shore of Turkey whose sands are cooled off by spotlessly clean and blue Mediterranean water. Having summer at least nine months of a year, with fresh and clean air owing to Taurus Mountains covered with vast forests, Mersin is an outstanding settlement with combination of long hot beaches and hazy, cool plateaus.

because Mersin, until today, has become a settlement place more than 8000 years since 6300 BCE, and hosted a great number of civilizations which handed down countless inheritance. She has been keeping hundreds of historical monument alive, since neolithic age; and protecting them for next generations.

because Mersin, with sea shore, longer than 300 km and natural beaches, longer than 100 km, is a city bringing people together with the cool water of Mediterranean, embracing them like a soft and motherly bosom. In additon to having significant places for diving into the deep waters of Mediterranean, Mersin is like a paradise where you can have exciment paragliding, find rivers to perform adventurous rafting sport, have long and healhty walks in nature, and run away from the stress of the city.

because Mersin has reached her sea trade to climax by having one of greatest seaports of the Mediterranean. She is an emporium, having played an important role in the trade of "Silk Route" through which the beauties of East flowed to West. Mersin, to whom past years have always been generous, has developed herself being aware of her strategical location and virtues. She has been keeping up with the time by continuing to develop in all areas, being modern and faithful to the principles of Atatürk. Mersin is one of the considerable cities of new millenium, which will carry on growing to be greater.

because Mersin managed to be an important agricultural city with especially her large gardens of citrus fruits, having immense farms, with fertile lands cultivating hormone-free, healthy foods.

So, because of all these properties of Mersin, we are asking those who wants to look at day with hope; who needs to enjoy the fresh air after breathing; who loves living and value the life itself; who asks why Mersin?

Why not?