[Bilimsel Haber] Turkish nationality room to debut at cathedral

[Gonul Pultar]

  Turkish nationality room to debut at cathedral

By Rick Wills <mailto:rwills at tribweb.com>, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Saturday, March 3, 2012
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Sean Caulfield gazed at the room as if he'd been transported to 
Istanbul's outdoor markets, minarets and hookah bars.

"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.

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.

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.

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.



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