Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum () 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
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, it is ...
, close to the
Grand Mosque.
The museum building was the house where
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (born Hüseyin Cahit; 4 October 1911 – 13 October 1956) was a Turkish poet and author from Türkiye. Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake". He mostly ...
(1910–1956), a well known poet, was born in. The building was constructed in 1733. It is a two-story house. The construction material is basalt stone. The building is composed of four symmetrical sections around a square courtyard. These parts are traditional living quarters in different seasons; north in summer, east in spring, south in winter and west in autumn. There are 14 rooms in the building. Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was born in the biggest room, so called "''başoda''" (literally: main room), in the summer section.
In 1973, the house was purchased by the
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, and it was opened to visits on 29 October 1973, the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic. In 2003 it was restored.
The 152 exhibited items are the personal belongings of Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı and his family members.
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See also
* Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library, a literary museum and archive dedicated to Turkish literature,
* Ziya Gökalp Museum, another historic house museum dedicated to Ziya Gökalp
Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (born Mehmed Ziya, 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 ...
, a leader of the Turkish nationalist movement.
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Historic house museums in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Diyarbakır
Museums established in 1973
1973 establishments in Turkey
Sur, Diyarbakır