Silifke - Atatürk House

Silifke - Atatürk House is located in the Saray District of Silifke, in Hacı Hulusi Mansion.

Atatürk arrived in Mersin by train on January 20, 1925, from Ankara via Konya-Adana-İcel. Next to him are his wife Latife Hanım, 2nd Army Commander Fahreddin (Altay), Minister of Public Works Fevzi (Pirinççizade), Rize Deputy Ahmed Kudsi and his aides. In those days, he decided to establish an exemplary farm in the South, apart from the Ankara Forest Farm. An empty land in Tekir Village of Silifke was recommended to him for such a farm. Atatürk left Latife Hanım in Mersin and came to Silifke, the provincial center of İçel, on the evening of January 27, 1925. After a short meeting with the Deputy Governor Fahri Bey, he spent the night in the two-storey mansion of Hacı Hulusi. Atatürk, who visited the Turkish Hearth and İdman Yurdu Lokal in Silifke on the next 28 January 1925, passed from here to Taşucuna and became the guest of Sadık Taşucu in Taşucu.

In 1974, work was started to expropriate the mansion belonging to Hacı Hulusi, where Atatürk was a guest on the night of January 27, 1925, in Silifke, and reorganize it as Atatürk's House. The mansion, which was expropriated by the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums in 1982, was repaired again, arranged as Atatürk House in 1986, and opened to visitors with a ceremony on January 2, 1987.

The lower floor of the Atatürk House was used as the District Public Library and the upper floor of the administration department was used as the Atatürk Museum. On the first floor, there is a sofa, guest and living rooms and a kitchen. In the halls where the ethnographic works of Silifke and its surroundings are exhibited, the bedding that Atatürk slept in when he stayed at Sadık Taşucu's house in Taşucu, the dinnerware he used, a gun signed "Gazi M. Kemal", documents belonging to Atatürk's Tekir Farm and the Agricultural Credit Cooperative he founded, photographs are included.

Source:  A A M, Atatürk Evleri Atatürk Müzeleri, Mehmet Önder, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi 1993. ISBN: 975-16-0077-4. Sayfa:54