What’s in a name? For Adana’s iconic film festival, a return to its original name — Golden Boll, which takes its name from the rounded seed of cotton grown abundantly in the region — after three years was a major political victory.
Adana's previous mayor, the far-right Nationalist Movement Party's (MHP) Huseyin Sozlu, had changed the name of the festival, which debuted in 1969, to the International Adana Film Festival, removing the symbolic Golden Boll from its name. Sozlu said the purpose of the change was to improve the promotion of the city.
