Over 120,000 folks have visited the July 15 Democracy Museum within the capital Ankara since its inauguration two years in the past by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the fifth anniversary of the failed coup.
Built throughout from the Presidential Complex, the museum goals to tell guests in regards to the July 15, 2016 coup try that killed 251 folks and injured 2,734 others.
Through video installations, pictures and private belongings of coup victims, the museum narrates tales of the coup try, orchestrated by navy infiltrators of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ).
Consisting of eight completely different galleries named “Coups in Türkiye and Around the World,” “Threat of a Bullet,” “Drown into the Darkness,” “The Longest Night,” “Those Who Leave a Trace,” “Sela,” “Respect to Martyrs” and “Democracy Watches,” the museum guests are reminded of the spirit of unity that prevented the rebellion.
Through digital strategies, the museum’s sonic gentle part the place the guests move underneath the tank accompanied by sound and light-weight results goals to tell future generations about what occurred on July 15, 2016.
The museum additionally options the pictures and biographies of every martyr via prism-shaped sections; whereas the final part of the power is adorned with a glass dome and a aircraft tree, symbolizing Türkiye’s previous with its roots and its shiny future with its branches and leaves.
There are 90 silicon sculptures representing the folks holding a democracy watch after July 15 underneath the most important synthetic tree within the nation with a size of 23 meters (75.5 toes).
“It is a museum, with its hall of ‘Coups in Türkiye and around the world,’ that welcomes our visitors to experience the grief of the July 15 coup attempt and the justified pride of the Turkish people at the highest level, with the most intense emotions,” Veysi Gün, the director of the museum instructed Anadolu Agency (AA).
The museum remained open each day between, 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., aside from Mondays, and acquired near 10,000 guests on the primary day of its inauguration and roughly 120,000 people within the interval since then, Gün famous.
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