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Contesting Urban Space in Early Republican Ankara

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Zeynep Kezer

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Abstract

Vakifs, pious foundations that provided various religious and social services, were critical institutions of the Ottoman Empire. They were severely undermined during Turkey's transition from an empire into a nation-state because their autonomous character and religious premises were incompatible with the modernist, secular, and homogenizing principles of the new regime. Because vakifs were major landowners, the process of dismantling them had a strong spatial component. Focusing on the confiscation of a vakif cemetery during the construction of Turkey's new capital, Ankara, this essay demonstrates how structural changes within the state and its institutions triggered unprecedented contestations over space by opening it to new uses and users while displacing the old, thereby profoundly transforming the urban cultural landscape.

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Author(s): Kezer Z

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Architectural Education

Year: 1998

Volume: 52

Issue: 1

Pages: 11

Print publication date: 23/02/2010

ISSN (print): 1046-4883

ISSN (electronic): 1531-314X

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1531-314X.1998.tb00251.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1531-314X.1998.tb00251.x

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