Çanakkale - Eceabat Bigali Village (Çamyayla) Atatürk House Museum

It was the beginning years of the Çanakkale Wars. Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), who was an Attaché in Sofia, saw that the Ottoman Empire was rapidly entering the First World War, and he insisted that the Commander-in-Chief be given an active duty in the country. In the face of this insistence, on January 20, 1915, they appointed him to the 19th Division Command, which was newly established in the Tekirdağ region. Atatürk established this division in a short time, came to Eceabat to participate in the Dardanelles Wars on February 25, 1915. A week later, the war started, Atatürk fought offensive and defensive wars against superior enemy forces in Conkbayırı and Arıburun, and showed his heroism, He attracted the attention of the whole world with his courage and victories, and was promoted to the rank of colonel on June 1, 1915. These days, Atatürk was sitting at his headquarters in Çamyayla, preparing his attack plans in this headquarters, and going to the forefront of the front from here.

After the Çanakkale Victory, he returned to Istanbul on 10 December 1915 as a hero.

After the Dardanelles Wars, Atatürk's Headquarters in Çamyayla was used as a house by its former owners for many years. Everyone knew that Atatürk spent his longest nights in this house, and that the oil lamps were lit until the morning. Of the items used that day, only one table remained. Who knows how many nights Atatürk had put his elbows on this table and marked the maps. Finally, a committee was established with the name (Çamyayla Atatürk Museum Establishment Committee). As a first task, this committee placed a plaque on the outer door of the house in 1969 bearing the inscription (M. Kemal Atatürk's 19th Division Headquarters in 1915). The owners wanted the house to be bought and turned into a museum. Finally, this has worked.

Atatürk's Çamyayla Headquarters was transferred to the Ministry of Culture. The Ministry repaired the house and opened it to visitors in 1973.

Atatürk's Çamyayla Headquarters was built as a two-storey and Baghdadi. A small courtyard is entered from the outer gate. Downstairs there are two rooms, one big and the other small. A wooden staircase here leads to the upstairs hall. The largest room in the middle of the three doors opening to the living room is Atatürk's study, the bedroom on the right. The other room is reserved for his aide. The ceilings and floors of the rooms are wooden. Atatürk's desk is in his study.

Headquarters Museum is exhibited with Atatürk's paintings and items brought here later.

Source: A A M, Atatürk Evleri Atatürk Müzeleri, Mehmet Önder, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi 1993, ISBN: 975-16-0077-4. Sayfa:76-77