Bolu Prepares for Tarkan

By Adelind Osmanlı reporting from Munich, Germany

Major preparations are continuing for Tarkan's planned appearance Bolu's 2nd White Meat Festival this Saturday.

News reports circulating claim that the local council, expecting a record turn-out for the event, has begun to specially pave the surrounding areas in the two-day run-up to the show.

The Turkish pop artist is scheduled to take to the stage on the second day of the festival, 26 July, at the festival's main arena to give a free concert to the public.

Surrounded by forests, Bolu is an ancient place on the old historic highway from Istanbul to Ankara, and has a past spanning thousands of years. It was part of one of the Hittite kingdoms, and the birthplace of Roman Emperor Hadrian's Greek lover Antinous.

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