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Victory
Museum of Commander-in-chief Historical
National Park Directorate
It is located on a nice place across
the "Victory Monument" in the
centrum of Afyonkarahisar and across Afyonkarahisar
Castle. The building was established as
duplex by Saitoğlu Mehmet Sait Efendi before
the foundation of the Republic in 1915-1920.
The building has neo-classical characteristics
with its general features.
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It
is observed that the building has
a typical Anatolian houses style (a
big hall called middle courtyard,
and beside it rooms that are opening
to this hall) in terms of plan.
The building continued to serve as
"Municipality Building of Afyon"
until the foundation of today's Municipality
Building in 1930. Later on, the building
was allocated to the "Police
Headquarters" upon the completion
of the new municipality building.
The building was allocated to Commander-in-chief
Historical National Park Directorate
as "Victory Museum" by the
National Estate Directorate, and our
Directorate owned the building in
11.09.1986.
Our Directorate moved to this building
in 1992. The importance of this building,
in which the decoration and restoration
works are still being carried out,
is that it belongs to a period (1919-1922)
when a whole nation struggled for
life and death and that Mustafa Kemal,
the Commander-in-chief; İsmet İnönü,
the Commander of Western Front; Fevzi
Çakmak, the Chief of the General Staff;
and Tevfik Bıyıklıoğlu, the Chief
of Western Front Actions Office all
stayed in this historical building
and used here as headquarters upon
the liberation of Afyonkarahisar from
the occupation of the enemies on August
27th, 1922.
Museum Tele : (+90-272) 212
09 16
Open hours to visit: between
08.30-12.00 and 13.00-17.30
Open Days to visit: every day
except Monday.
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