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<h1 class="headline">Turkish nationality room to debut at cathedral</h1>
<div class="byline"> By <a class="headlinelink3"
href="mailto:rwills@tribweb.com">Rick Wills</a>, PITTSBURGH
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<p>Sean Caulfield gazed at the room as if he'd been transported to
Istanbul's outdoor markets, minarets and hookah bars.</p>
<p>"It's great. This room is so different from the other Nationality
Rooms here at Pitt," said Caulfield, 19, of Plum, a sophomore at the
University of Pittsburgh, while looking at the Turkish Nationality Room
on Friday. It is the 28th and latest of the Nationality Rooms in the
school's landmark Cathedral of Learning.</p>
<p>Designed by Omer Akin, professor of architecture at Carnegie Mellon
University since 1977, the room is a "main room" in a traditional
Turkish house, with seating along the walls. It will be dedicated on
Sunday at a ceremony attended by Namik Tan, Turkey's ambassador to the
United States.</p>
<p>The room features a large mural of Istanbul, four ceramic panels
depicting life in Turkey in the ninth, 14th and 16th centuries. One
panel is a life-size scene from 1928 with Kemal Atatürk, the father of
modern Turkey, instructing the Turkish nation on the Latin alphabet
that was adopted as the country's legal script in the 1920s.</p>
<p>The room includes intricate native woodwork and a window designed by
master artisans in Turkey. The window is glazed, with lead glass panels
embellished with a stylized tulip pattern. The tulips reference the
imperial flower of early-18th century Ottomans, an empire that lasted
from 1299 to 1923 and whose rule extended from Turkey into Europe, the
Middle East and North Africa.</p>
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