İzmir Parachute Tower ( tr, İzmir Paraşüt Kulesi) is a

parachute tower A parachute tower is a tower used for parachute training, often by members of a military paratroop unit. A mixture of tower heights are used at different stages of training. Trainees typically begin on towers around in height in fall-arrest harn ...

located within

Kültürpark Kültürpark is an urban park in İzmir, Turkey. It is located in the district of Konak, roughly bounded by Dr. Mustafa Enver Bey Avenue on the north, 1395th Street, 1396th Street and Bozkurt Avenue on the east, Mürsel Paşa Boulevard on the sou ...

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. It was built in 1937 by the

Turkish Aeronautical Association Turkish Aeronautical Association ( tr, Türk Hava Kurumu - THK) is a non-profit organization with an aim of increasing public awareness and participation in aviation related activities and the national body governing air sports in Turkey. The asso ...

. It is one of the two parachute towers in the country.

History

Mayor

Behçet Uz Ömer Behçet Uz (1893 – 19 May 1986) was a Turkish physician, politician, former mayor of İzmir and government minister. Biography He was born in Buldan ilçe (district) of Denizli Province, Ottoman Empire in 1893. He studied in İzmir ...

, who saw the parachute tower in Gorky Park in Moscow, suggested that a similar tower be built in

to the

. The Turkish Aeronautical Association sent a delegation to Russia to investigate and decided to build a parachute tower in

Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

in addition to İzmir. The construction of the tower, whose architectural project was prepared by Bedri Tümay and Algrandi, started in 1935 within

. The tower, which cost 38,758.61

Turkish lira The lira ( tr, Türk lirası; sign: ₺; ISO 4217 code: TRY; abbreviation: TL) is the official currency of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. One lira is divided into one hundred ''kuruş''. History Ottoman lira (1844–1923) The lira, along with ...

s, was completed in 1937 and opened on 9 September in the same year during the 7th

İzmir International Fair The İzmir International Fair ( tr, İzmir Enternasyonal Fuarı) is the oldest tradeshow in Turkey, considered the cradle of Turkey's fairs and expositions industry, and is also notable for hosting a series of simultaneous festival activities. Th ...

. The tower operates for a fee during the fair period.

Architecture

Seventy-five oak piles were nailed to the floor of the İzmir Parachute Tower, which was built using reinforced concrete. The tower, which has three terraces, is above sea level and above ground level. There is an elevator in the middle of the tower and a spiral staircase around this elevator.

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Parachute Tower A parachute tower is a tower used for parachute training, often by members of a military paratroop unit. A mixture of tower heights are used at different stages of training. Trainees typically begin on towers around in height in fall-arrest harn ...

Towers in Turkey

Towers completed in 1937 1937 establishments in Turkey Parachute towers Parachuting in Turkey