DIDIM Council has agreed to name a local park after a young Didim student who was killed in a bombing last October.

At the August meeting of the council last week, members agreed that a new park to run bordering streets 877-880, off Selanik Caddesi, Yeni Mahalle, will be named Elif Kanlıoğlu 10 October Peace Park.

Elif was among 95 people who died on October 10, last year, in what, at that time, was the worst terror atrocity in Turkey.

Twin suicide bomb blasts killed people and maimed close to 300 as crowds gathered in Ankara.

Elif, aged 20, was a foreign languages student at the University of Mersin. A second person from Aydin Canberk Bakış (19) was also killed.

Among the dead was 70-year-old Meryem Bulut, or Mother Meryem, (pictured below left)  a member of the famous Saturday Mothers group, who have protested the disappearance of their loved ones, mostly sons, through silent sit-ins at Galatasaray Square in downtown Istanbul since 1995.

At the council meeting, Mayor Deniz Atabay condemned the recent coup attempt of July 15.

He said that consideration for the naming of a park in Akbuk, which the council has recently completed, would also be considered.