Şairler Sofası

Hallway of Poets
Sofa Poets Park
Şairler Sofası Şairler Parkı Şairler Sofası Parkı
The sculpture Şairler Sofası (1998) by Gürdal Duyar for which the park is named after. The sculpture depicts the poets Behçet Necatigil, Sabahattin Kudret Aksal, Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Oktay Rıfat, Orhan Veli, Neyzen Tevfik and Nigâr Hanım.
Type	Urban park
Location	Vişnezade, Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey
Coordinates	41°04′21″N 29°00′03″E
Created	1998 (1998)
Designer	Gürdal Duyar (sculpture) Erhan İşözen (park)

One of the entrances of the park with its name on the board

A part of Beşiktaş Vişnezade Park is oriented under the name "Şairler Sofası". Şairler Sofası is the 1998 sculpture by Gürdal Duyar whose name the park goes by. The depicted characters in the sculpture as well as the figures depicted in the other sculptures in the greater park are 19th and 20th century poets who have mostly lived in and around Beşiktaş. ^[1] In the sculpture Şairler Sofası, Duyar has composed it such that the poets are "hand in hand" and "shoulder to shoulder". It includes the poets Behçet Necatigil, Sabahattin Kudret Aksal, Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Oktay Rıfat, Orhan Veli, Neyzen Tevfik and Nigâr Hanım together in one composition. ^[2] The Architectural design of the park was done by Erhan İşözen.^[2] The park was opened in 1998 together with the first sculptures. at the inauguration of the park the mayor of Beşiktaş, Ayfer Atay, said that the park will be a place where books will be signed and poems will be read.^[3] The park has become a place where more poets and other members of Turkish society were honored with monuments over the years.

The Sculptures

On the inauguration of the park in 1998, the park featured sculptures by Gürdal Duyar, Yunus Tonkuş and Namık Denizhan.^[2][3] Later on over the years new sculptures by them, and other sculptors, have been added to the park.

Year	Depicted Poet(s)	Name	Sculptor
1998	Behçet Necatigil Sabahattin Kudret Aksal Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Oktay Rıfat Orhan Veli Neyzen Tevfik Nigâr Hanım	Şairler Sofası	Gürdal Duyar
1998	Nigar Hanım		Namık Denizhan
1998	Neyzen Tevfik		Namık Denizhan
1998	Behçet Necatigil		Namık Denizhan
1998	Orhan Veli Kanık		Namık Denizhan
1998	Melih Cevdet Anday		Metin Yurdanur
1998	Oktay Rıfat		Namık Denizhan
1998	Sabahattin Kudret Aksal		Yunus Tonkuş
1998	Özdemir Asaf	Özdemir Asaf Heykeli	Namık Denizhan
2002	Necati Cumalı	Necati Cumalı	Gürdal Duyar
	Cahit Külebi
2016	Ataol Behramoğlu	Ataol Behramoğlu Heykeli	Ali Yaldır Zafer Dağdeviren Derya Ersoy
2017	Alâeddin Yavaşça
1998	Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı	Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı	Namık Demizhan
	Süleyman Seba		Neslihan Pala

Following the death of Necati Cumalı in 2001 a sculpture of Cumalı by Gürdal Duyar was added to the park in 2002.^[4] Since the initial opening of the park the sculptures of the poets Süleyman Seba by Neslihan Pala has also been added.^[5] On 13 April 2016 the sculpture of Ataol Behramoğlu was inaugurated. It was sculpted by Ali Yaldır, Zafer Dağdeviren and Derya Ersoy.^[5] In 2017 the sculpture of Alâeddin Yavaşça was erected.^[6] At some point a sculpture of Cahit Külebi has also been added.^[7]

Photos

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  Sculpture of Behçet Necatigil by Namık Denizhan
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  Sculpture of Özdemir Asaf by Namık Denizhan
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  Sculpture of Necati Cumalı by Gürdal Duyar
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  Sculpture of Neyzen Tevfik by Namık Denizhan
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  Sculpture of Sabahattin Kudret Aksal by Yunus Tonkuş
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  Sculpture of Cahit Külebi

See also

• List of public art in Istanbul

Sources

• Ertem, Raif (10 December 1998). "Şairler Sofası'nda Beşiktaş'ta" [At the Şairler Sofa in Beşiktaş]. Rasgele (in Turkish). Retrieved 13 September 2022.
• Demir, Bülent (28 November 1998). "Akaret ler'de şairler parkı" [A Poets park in Akaretler] (PDF). Hürriyet Istanbul. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
• Sezer, Sennur; Özyalçıner, Adnan (Oct 2010). Özmen, Gonca (ed.). Öyküleriyle İstanbul Anıtları [Istanbuls' Monuments Through their Stories]. II (in Turkish) (1 ed.). Beyoğlu/Istanbul: Evrensel Basim Yayin. ISBN 9786053312628. Retrieved 1 Oct 2017 – via books.google.com.
• Demir, Bülent (13 January 2002). "Necati Cumalı heykeli Beşiktaş'ta" [The Necati Cumalı sculpture is in Beşiktaş] (in Turkish). NTV. Retrieved 13 September 2022.

References

1. Sezer & Özyalçıner 2010.
2. Demir 1998.
3. Ertem 1998.
4. Demir 2002.
5. "Ataol Behramoğlu Heykeli Açılış Töreni | BKS". BKS | Beşiktaş Kültür Sanat (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-09-13.
6. "Sanatçı Prof. Dr. Alaeddin Yavaşca'ya veda!". www.finansgundem.com (in Turkish). 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
7. ALKAÇ, Fırat. "Şairin heykelini ısınmak için yaktılar... Taş sandık fiber çıktı". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Hürriyet. Retrieved 2022-09-13.