The bird's flight distance to the Mediterranean coast (hence the city center) is 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi).

Mayor Mithat Toroğlu assigned German architect Hermann Jansen to prepare a city plan for Mersin.

[5] The cemetery originally measured 260 decares (0.26 km2; 0.10 sq mi) and was located outside the city's residential area.

[7] İnce recalls that in 2003, both Christian priests and Muslim hocas prayed during the burial ceremony of Hanri Atat, a celebrity of Mersin.

In a 2009 ceremony, Mersin mayor Macit Özcan stressed that the deceased of different religions all lay in peace and everybody should do his/her best to keep this feature of the cemetery.