Turkish mayor suing Batman director for 'stealing his city's name'

The Mayor of Batman, an ancient oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey, is hoping to receive royalties if he is successful in suing the director of The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan.

Hüseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of the city, claims that American producers took the name of his city without telling him or his people.



He said: "There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us."

Kalkan also blames a series of unsolved murders in his city on the psychological impact of the film's success.