İstanbul - Atatürk House (Revolution Museum) in Şişli

Atatürk left the Syrian Front and came to Istanbul on 13 November 1918 and settled in an apartment in the Perapalas Hotel. Leaving this hotel a few days later, Atatürk first stayed as a guest in the house of his close friend Salih Fansa in Beyoğlu, and then rented Madam Kasabyan's three-storey house in Şişli. In those days, her mother Zübeyde Hanım and her sister Makbule were living in a house in the Akaretler neighborhood of Beşiktaş. When Atatürk moved to Şişli, he took his mother and sister with him and reserved the third floor of the house for them. He lived on the middle floor and used the room on this floor facing the back garden as his bedroom. He had reserved the great hall as a meeting room. On the lower floor was his aide. Atatürk, in these dark days when Istanbul was under enemy occupation,

After Atatürk moved to Anatolia and settled in Ankara, his mother and brother took Makbule Hanım with them and lived in Çankaya. The house in Şişli, on the other hand, passed to Tahsin Uzel, the former Deputy of Erzurum, who later bought it from Tahsin Uzel in 1942 to establish the Istanbul Municipality Revolution Museum.

The House, which was built on Halaskar Gazi Street in Şişli in 1908 and known as Atatürk House, was repaired by the Istanbul Municipality and opened to visitors in 1943 as the Revolution Museum.

The exhibition in the Museum, which was reorganized in 1981, is as follows:

At the entrance of the building, Atatürk's Address to the Youth and an inscription of Atatürk. Paintings related to the National Struggle in the dining room. On the living room walls are photographs of Atatürk's life, from his birth to the First World War.

The bedroom, study room and other rooms on the first floor are equipped with Atatürk's belongings and clothes, photographs of the years of the National Struggle, and documents related to his reforms. In the rooms on the second floor, photographs, paintings, documents and information about Atatürk's death are exhibited.

3rd Floor: There are photographs about the revolutions, various books written about Atatürk, photographs of his death, newspapers, soil brought from the Anıtkabir in a jar, etc.

Source : A A M, Atatürk Evleri Atatürk Müzeleri, Mehmet Önder, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi 1993. ISBN: 975-16-0077-4. Sayfa:20