Atatürk Mask

Atatürk Mask

Atatürk Maskı
Photo of the Mask
38°24′21.8″N 27°08′44.9″E
Location	Buca, İzmir, Turkey
Designer	Harun Atalayman
Type	Sculpture
Material	Concrete
Height	42 metres (138 ft)[1]
Beginning date	2006[1]
Completion date	2009[1]
Restored date	2018[2]
Dedicated to	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Cost	₺4.2 million[1]

The Atatürk Mask (Turkish: Atatürk Maskı) is a large concrete bust of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of modern Turkey, located in Buca district of İzmir. The sculpture was completed in 2009 at a cost of ₺4.2 million.

History

Buca Municipality has agreed with sculptor Harun Atalayman to have a monument dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk built.^[3] The sculpture, the construction of which started in 2006, was completed in 2009 at a cost of ₺4.2 million.^[1][4] In September 2010, a museum called the Independence War and 9 September Museum was established within the sculpture for a brief of time.^[5][6] In 2018, after being damaged by weather and climate, help was asked from trained mountain climbers with the repairs, because a crane is not able to access some locations of the monument.^[7][2]

Design

The Atatürk Mask, at 42 m (138 ft) high, is the highest relief sculpture in Turkey, and the tenth highest relief sculpture in the world.^[1] It is built up over a scaffolding and not carved into the side of the mountain.^[8] To be more specific, the monument is steel structure containing a space truss system.^[9] In the lower left corner of the sculpture, Atatürk's quote "Peace at Home, Peace in the World" and his signature are embossed.

See also

• Mount Rushmore
• Young Mao Zedong statue

References

1. Özlü, Can (12 September 2009). "İzmir'e 42 metrelik Atatürk dağı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). İzmir. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
2. "İzmir'de 42 metrelik Atatürk maskına bakım". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 5 June 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
3. "'Atatürk'ün maskına bile sahip çıkamıyorlar!'". Yeni Asır (in Turkish). 23 October 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
4. "Kişi başına kaç Atatürk heykeli düşüyor?". Yeni Akit. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
5. "Buca'da, Milli Mücadele ve 9 Eylül Müzesi kuruldu". Milliyet (in Turkish). 19 September 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
6. "Atatürk Maskı ve Müzesi harabeye döndü!". Sözcü (in Turkish). 25 November 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
7. "İzmir'deki Atatürk Maskı'na bilimsel bakım". 13 November 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
8. "Turkey's Mount Rushmore". AFAR. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
9. Yalçın Koca, Mehmet; Kincal, Cem; Turan Arslan, Ahmet; Recep Yilmaz, Halil (February 2011) [2009]. "Anchor application in Karatepe andesite rock slope, Izmir—Türkiye". Geological Engineering, Civil Engineering. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 48 (2). Izmir: Elsevier (published 16 December 2010): 245–258. Bibcode:2011IJRMM..48..245K. doi:10.1016/j.ijrmms.2010.11.006.

External links

• Media related to Atatürk Mask at Wikimedia Commons