ABSTRACT
Antkabir is the official and permanent resting place of the body of Mustafa Kemal Atatrk. As early as two weeks after the death of Atatrk, the Austrian city planner Hermann Jansen, known for his 1928 competition-winning development plan for Ankara, made a small sketch design for an Atatrk Monument with an obelisk and burning urns that very simply attempted to convey such a resting place for Atatrk. Given the large place that Atatrk held and still holds in the minds and soul of Turkey, Antkabir, however, was meant to be much more grand and monumental than Jansen's sketch. The construction of Antkabir began in 1943 and took ten years. The Turkish Parliament, instead of following this advice directly, appointed a site selection committee very soon after Atatrk's funeral and placement into the Ethnographic Museum temporary tomb to research appropriate locations in Ankara for his mausoleum.
