Ziya Gökalp Museum () 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, it is ...
, 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 () 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 to the Grand Mosque.
The museum building was t ...
.
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 ...
(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 (, , also as ''ivan'' or ''ivān''/''īvān'', , ) 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.
Arson
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
''Aydınlık'' ("Clarify" or "Enlightenment" in Turkish) is the newspaper of the Patriotic Party (''Vatan Partisi''). Originally launched as a weekly newspaper in 1921, it has been repeatedly closed and relaunched, most recently in 2011.
Histo ...
'' newspaper, the masked mob was a PKK-oriented group.
See also
*Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library
The Ahmet Arif Literature Museum Library () is a literary museum and archive dedicated to Turkish literature and named after the poet Ahmet Arif (1927–1991). Located in Diyarbakır, Turkey, the museum was established by the Ministry of Culture ...
, a literary museum and archive dedicated to Turkish literature,
*Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum
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, close to the Grand Mosque.
The museum building was t ...
, another historic house museum dedicated to 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 ...
, a poet.
References
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Historic house museums in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Diyarbakır
Museums established in 1956
1956 establishments in Turkey
Sur, Diyarbakır