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Geometry of Power: Architecture, Planning, and Ideology of the Turkish Republic

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The 1920s. A new state is born from the ruins of a great empire that lost a world war. Its founding fathers, led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, set themselves a titanic task: to transform the fragmented multicultural legacy of the Ottoman Empire into a monolithic, modern, secular nation in the shortest possible time. But how to unite people? How to make them feel like an indivisible whole? This book provides a clear and shocking answer: through a radical reshaping of space itself.

In this extensive study by British scholar Zeynep Kezer, a grand social experiment comes to life: you will see how the construction of the new capital, Ankara, its schools, train stations, streets, and administrative buildings went hand in hand with the methodical erasure of the cultural, ethnic, and religious heritage of the old empire. This is the story of how architecture and urban planning became the primary weapon in the battle for the hearts and minds of people, giving rise not only to brilliant achievements but also to painful traumas whose echoes are still heard in Turkey today.
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