Çankaya Palace

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The Köşk Ataturk during World War II
Ataturk in the library

The Çankaya Villa ( German  for Çankaya Köşkü ) is the official seat of the Vice President of the Republic of Turkey.

He was the official seat of the President of the Republic of Turkey until October 2014 and then served as Prime Minister until July 2018 . It is located in the Çankaya district of the capital Ankara . The name was also used as a metonym for the incumbent president. The site with its palace covers more than 1.77 km² of land. It houses the museum villa of the state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the Pink Villa (Pembe Köşk), the glass villa (Camlı Köşk) and new office buildings, including the State Board of Directors, reception halls and a press conference hall. There are also sports grounds, a fire station, a greenhouse and the barracks of the presidential guard.

The palace is currently used by Vice President Fuat Oktay (as of April 2020). Cumhurbaşkanlığı Sarayı has served as the presidential palace since October 2014 .

history

Until the genocide of the Armenians in 1915, the land on which the Çankaya villa stands today was a wine-growing region that belonged to the Armenian jeweler and trader Ohannes Kasabian. After the survivors of the Kasabian family fled Ankara and settled in Istanbul , the Ottoman state confiscated the house and gave it to the Bulgurluzâde family.

Mustafa Kemal bought the building from Bulgurluzâde Tevfik Efendi in 1921 for 4,500 Turkish lira . After he had previously lived in the Ankaran School of Agriculture and after his election as spokesman for the Grand National Assembly on April 23, 1920 in the villa of the railway chief ("Director's House"), Ataturk moved in early June 1921 to the "Çankaya Villa". His mother Zübeyde Hanım first lived here, and later his wife Latife Uşşaki .

Ataturk's residence during the War of Independence

The Köşk was inaugurated on October 29, 1923, Republic Day , by state founder Mustafa Kemal Pascha . In 1924 the architect Mehmet Vedat Bey carried out some renovations to the Kasabian villa, including the installation of a second floor for new bedrooms, a window entrance with a frame on the front, a pantry and kitchen in the rear building and a tower on the side. In 1936 the Camlı Köşk ( Glass Villa) was built, a villa south of Kızılay in which Ataturk's sister, Makbule Atadan , lived.

Web links

Commons : Çankaya Köşkü  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Çankaya Köşkü'nün akıbeti belli oldu. Cumhuriyet , June 27, 2018, accessed April 10, 2020 (Turkish).
  2. ↑ a b c d Presidency of the Republic of Turkey: Çankaya Presidential Campus
  3. ^ A b Keyzer, Zeynep: Of Forgotten People and Forgotten Places: Nation-building and the Dismantling of Ankara's Non-Muslim Landscapes. In: On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites. ed. D. Fairchild Ruggles. New York: Springer, 2012, ( limited preview in Google Book Search) p. 174.
  4. ↑ Üngör, Ugur Ümit . Confiscation and Colonization: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property. In: Armenian Weekly . April 22, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
  5. ↑ Kürşat Bumin: Bir varmış bir yokmuş… [There was and there wasn't…]. In: Yeni Şafak . May 20, 2007, accessed January 5, 2009 (Turkish).
  6. ↑ Official Page of Çankaya Municipality ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (Turkish)
  7. ↑ Çankaya Palace ( Memento from February 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (Turkish)

Coordinates: 39 ° 53 ′ 21 ″  N , 32 ° 51 ′ 52 ″  E