Grand National Assembly of Turkey

The parliament building of the Turkish Republic occupies a monumental complex in central Ankara designed in the 1930s and completed in the following decades in a restrained modernist style. Its long stone façade, ceremonial forecourt and grand assembly chamber were conceived to express the dignity of the new nation-state established after the fall of the empire. Guarded gates, flanking ministries and formal gardens surround the legislature. Two earlier assembly buildings elsewhere, where the republic was proclaimed, now serve as museums.