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Ankara: The courtyard and Mausoleum of Attaturk, founder of the Turkish Republic (1923). Attaturk made Turkey into a modern secular state; he introduced the (modified) Roman alphabet; his picture is everywhere and his statues are in most towns.
The mausoleum is only part of an extensive memorial area and park grounds, which is pictured on the back of the "new five lira" (YTL 5) banknote, (mouse over the image). $1.00 US = 1.35 YTL.