Locals of Batman have started a petition to change their city's map to look like the symbol of one of the best known superheroes, Batman.
Almost a decade after it unsuccessfully campaigned to sue creators of Batman, the eastern Turkish city bearing the name of the superhero takes another shot at grabbing the spotlight from the caped crusader.
An online petition calling for the city's borders to be reshaped in the form of Batman already garnered more than 10,000 signatures.
Kemal Atakan Kırca, who started the campaign calls for batman governorate to "start with the border" after stating batman needs some change. supporters of the campaign count on tourism revenues for the city which is mostly off the tourist trail.
In 2008, the city's Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan attempted to sue Warner Bros and the Batman Trilogy's director Christopher Nolan over rights to the name although Batman in Turkey is spelled differently. The lawsuit was rejected as the superhero was created in 1939 while the Turkish city was named Batman in 1950s, reportedly after shortening the name of a nearby mountain.
