The Mayor Of Batman Is A Douchebag

Posted by: Tristan

Huseyin Kalkan, the mayor of the Turkish city Batman, is suing Warner Bros. and its CEO Christopher Nolan for royalties from the movie “The Dark Night”. Kalkan accused the studio of using his city’s name without permission.

“There is only one Batman in the world,” Kalkan said. “The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.”

Among the charges being prepared, Kalkan places the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological effect on the city’s residents caused by the film.

This is not the first time that Kalkan has filed suit against Warner Bros.  The company settled with Kalkan for an undisclosed amount in 2007. Kalkan has been accused of funneling that money to the PKK, a Kurdish militant group seeking independence from Turkey.

Kalkan, a Turkish Kurd, was sentenced to ten months in prison for praising Kurdish PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and saying the PKK was not a terrorist organization in a 2006 interview with the LA Times.