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    The Orhan Kemal Literature Museum (Turkish: Orhan Kemal Müzesi) is a literary museum and archive in Istanbul, Turkey dedicated to Turkish literature, and...
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  • Orhan Kemal (15 September 1914 – 2 June 1970) is the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Reşit Öğütçü. He is known for his realist novels that describe...
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  • The Museum of Innocence (Turkish: Masumiyet Müzesi) is a novel by the Turkish Nobel-laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk, published on August 29, 2008. The book...
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    The Museum of Innocence (Turkish: Masumiyet Müzesi) is a museum in a 19th-century house in Istanbul (Çukurcuma) created by novelist Orhan Pamuk as a companion...
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    Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları (Mr. Cevdet and His Sons) in 1982 and won the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize in 1983. It tells the story of three generations of a wealthy...
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    romanized: ṭopḳapu sarāyı, lit. 'Cannon Gate Palace'), or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. From...
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    Hagia Sophia (redirect from Ayasofya museum)
    to cover up other problems". Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate, publicly denounced the move, saying "Kemal Atatürk changed... Hagia Sophia...
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    Rumelihisarı (category Museums in Istanbul)
    move threatened the Ottomans with another potential civil war by releasing Orhan (a pretender to the Ottoman throne). This move by the Byzantines was seen...
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    The Istanbul Archaeology Museums (Turkish: İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri) are a group of three archaeological museums located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul...
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    Dolmabahçe Palace (category Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
    the palace to the national heritage of the new Turkish Republic. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey, used...
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    Pammakaristos Church (category Museums in Istanbul)
    Fethiye Museum exterior Fethiye Museum exterior Fethiye Museum Exterior Fethiye Museum domes Fethiye Museum mosaic in a dome Fethiye Museum mosaic with...
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    Istanbul Modern, a.k.a. Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, (Turkish: İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi) is a contemporary art gallery located inside the Galataport...
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    Yıldız Palace (category Historic house museums in Turkey)
    the Çadır Pavilion, the Yıldız Theater and Opera House, the Yıldız Palace Museum, and the Imperial Porcelain Factory. The Yıldız Palace Gardens are also...
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    Anadoluhisarı (category Museums in Istanbul)
    Fortress Conquest of Constantinople Ottoman architecture Architectural Museum (in Turkish) Principals of Ottoman fort architecture (in Turkish) Finkel...
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    Minister Boats used by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during his stay at the Florya Marine Mansion in Istanbul List of museums and monuments in Istanbul The World...
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    Atatürk Museum (Turkish: Atatürk Müzesi) is a historic house museum dedicated to the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of the Republic...
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    Beylerbeyi Palace (category Museums in Istanbul)
    Museum Literary museums Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar Museum Orhan Kemal Literature Museum Piyer Loti Museum Sait...
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    resting place of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of the Turkish Republic. Designed by architects Emin Onat and Orhan Arda, the construction...
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    The Chora (redirect from Kariye Museum)
    century, during the Ottoman era, it was converted into a mosque; it became a museum in 1945, and was turned back into a mosque in 2020 by President Recep Tayyip...
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    On 20 September 1937, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, suggested its conversion into a museum since the imperial family had...
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    was tutored by Yahya Kemal, whose views deeply influenced the pupil's intellectual development and ideas about aesthetics, literature, Turkish history and...
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    The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (Turkish: Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi) is a museum located in Sultanahmet Square in Fatih district of Istanbul,...
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    (1681–1730), Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884–1958), Nâzım Hikmet Ran (1902–1963), Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), Aziz Nesin (1915–1995), Orhan Pamuk (born 1952)...
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  • Thumbnail for Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum
    Contemporary Art Museum (iS.CaM) is an independent, artist run museum established in Istanbul in 1997. It is the oldest contemporary art museum in Istanbul...
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    the Museum became a Middle Eastern languages learning center attended by ancient history researchers from every part of the world. Married to M. Kemal Çığ...
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    The Rahmi M. Koç Museum is a private industrial museum in Istanbul, Turkey dedicated to the history of transport, industry and communications. Rahmi M...
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  • The major writers of the "village novel" tradition were Kemal Tahir, Orhan Kemal, and Yaşar Kemal. In a very different tradition, but evincing a similar...
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    Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion (category Museums in Istanbul)
    municipality of Istanbul, for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's recreational use. The building is a historic house museum today. Designed in the Bauhaus style by...
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    Küçüksu Pavilion (category Museums in Istanbul)
    thorough restoration in 1944, the palace has been open to the public as a museum. The pavilion appeared in the James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough"...
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    Pera Museum (Turkish: Pera Müzesi) is an art museum in the Tepebaşı quarter of the Beyoğlu (formerly called Pera) district in Istanbul, Türkiye, at Meşrutiyet...
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