City's Stash

In Tanpınar's words, "an inner castle is the last shelter where all hopes gather." Ankara Castle is the place where the "city spirit" in Ankara can be saved; It is the city's stash...

What you have in your hands is a book about Ankara Castle that is as messy and chaotic as the castle itself! It consists of a wide variety of articles.

Güven Tunç and Figen Özbay talked about the "Guardians of the Castle", people who think about their destiny together with the castle. With photographs, images and his own short words...

Akın Atauz discusses the place and development of the castle in Ankara's history - which is much longer and richer than generally known - with its economic, social and ethnographic dimensions, in an article that is almost a book in itself.

Asuman Türkün and Zuhal Ulusoy examine the course of the city's relationship with the Castle and the Castle's relationship with the city, and the transformation of the Castle space during the modernization process of Ankara.

Necdet Teymur presents his critical approach to the "project" efforts aimed at "protecting and reconstructing" the Castle in a "project" format.

And... Mithat Sancar and Gürsel Korat tell about "their own castle", how they know the Castle, how they love it...



Number of Pages: 312

Year of Printing: 2004


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2004

Language Turkish