Location: Ankara

Ferenc Hillinger and Bruno Taut: Cebeci High School

One of the leaders of the construction of the Turkish Grand National Assembly’s Building: Ferenc Hillinger

During the 1920s and 1930s, as the new capital of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara, was being built, the names of two Hungarian architects…

Károly Weichinger, a member of the jury for the design competition for the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Anıtkabir

The death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1938 plunged the entire Turkish nation into mourning and, at the same time, led to the creation…

Imre Ormos Park

Among the experts who arrived in Turkey in the early 20th century was Imre Ormos, one of the most distinguished figures in the field…

Lajos Kossuth Street

As the Hungarian Embassy in Ankara moved to a new building in the late ’90s, one of the streets neighbouring the new place was…

Budapest Road

To symbolize the relationship between the sister cities of Budapest and Ankara, on September 11, 2015, Budapest Mayor István Tarlós and Ankara Mayor Melih…

The First Meteorological Measuring House in Ankara

György Tittes was one of the architects working in Ankara in the 1920-30s. The plans of the first meteorological meterologicalstation, which had a crucial…

Museum of Ethnography

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk aimed to develop the Republic of Turkey into a modern country in all senses. The new capital city, Ankara, played a…

The Hungarology Department of the Ankara University

After the closure of the Constantinople Hungarian Science Institute in 1918, the Institute of Hungarology opened as part of the Ankara University in 1936,…

The Former Building of the Hungarian Embassy

The diplomatic mission of the Kingdom of Hungary was one of the first to move from Istanbul to Ankara, the new capital city, in…