Remembering and forgetting in the funerary architecture of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: the construction and maintenance of national memory

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This dissertation traces the concept of national memory through the five architectural spaces that have housed the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: the bedroom in Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul, where he died on 10 November 1938; the catafalque in the Grand Ceremonial Hall of Dolmabahçe Palace used between 16-19 November 1938; the official funeral stage in Ankara designed by Bruno Taut and used between 20-21 November 1938; the temporary tomb in The Ethnographic Museum, Ankara; and Atatürk’s mausoleum, Anıtkabir, in use since 10 November 1953. The dissertation firstly narrates the construction of a Turkish collective memory by means of architectural representation and politicization and secondly the physical and ideological maintenance of this memory by means of additions and subtractions to these spaces.

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C. S. Wilson, “Remembering and forgetting in the funerary architecture of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: the construction and maintenance of national memory,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2007.