Ziya Gökalp Museum ( tr, Ziya Gökalp Müzesi) is a house museum dedicated to Ziya Gökalp in

Diyarbakır Diyarbakır (; ; ; ) is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, ...

, Turkey. The museum is located in the historic Sur district of Diyarbakır. It is close to Grand Mosque and the

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum ( tr, Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Evi Kültür Müzesi) is a historic house and museum dedicated to Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı in Diyarbakır, Turkey. The museum is located in the historic Sur district of Diyarbakır, close ...

Ziya Gökalp Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("ce ...

(1876–1924) was one of the most important intellectuals and spokesmen of the Turkish nationalist movement. The museum building is the house, where he was born and grew up in. The building was constructed in 1808. In 1953, the house was bought by the

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, and it was opened as a house museum on 23 March 1956. The building has a ground floor and an upper floor. The basalt-stone house is composed of three sections around a courtyard. Unlike other Diyarbakır historical houses, the house pool is placed in the

iwan An iwan ( fa, ایوان , ar, إيوان , also spelled ivan) is a rectangular hall or space, usually vaulted, walled on three sides, with one end entirely open. The formal gateway to the iwan is called , a Persian term for a portal projecting ...

rather than in the courtyard.

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On 7 September 2014, a group of mob assaulted the house and put the furniture in the house on fire. Valuable books and furniture were burned and the museum was temporarily closed to visits.Aydınlık newspaper
According to '' Aydınlık'' newspaper, the masked mob was a

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-oriented group.

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{{Museums in Turkey Historic house museums in Turkey Buildings and structures in Diyarbakır Museums established in 1956 1956 establishments in Turkey Sur, Diyarbakır

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