Enjoy dishes of Atatürk at a Gelibolu restaurant
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Anatolia News Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mayıs 30, 2009 00:00
ÇANAKKALE - A female entrepreneur in the northwestern city of Çanakkale is serving the dishes that the founder of the Turkish Republic ate during the Çanakkale Wars in her restaurant, located in a restored 110-year-old wood building.
Atiye Yalçın rented and restored the first floor of the two-story Gelincik Mansion in the center of Çanakkale’s Gelibolu district, turning it into a unique restaurant that serves dishes enjoyed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk when he was in Gelibolu during the Çanakkale Wars, along with other regional flavors. The building had been used as the headquarters of Russians, French and Greeks in the past. "Later on, it was a women’s prison, a hotel and a house," Yalçın said.
Dishes Atatürk ate
"Atatürk is always studied through his strategic vision. We all know what people managed with very limited opportunities in that period," Yalçın said.
"But I searched for the dishes that he ate during the wars." Yalçin said Prof. Mete Tuncoku, director of the Atatürk and Çanakkale Research Center at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, aided her in her research.Yalçın’s restaurant was a ruined building before the restoration. "We removed two trucks of garbage from the building. Now it is an enviable place," she said.
The first-floor restaurant has authentic decoration in all its rooms, including old radios, mirrors and wall hangings. There are regular tables in two rooms and a floor table in a third room. After dinner, guests can drink Turkish coffee in the garden of the building.
Dishes Atatürk ate
"Atatürk is always studied through his strategic vision. We all know what people managed with very limited opportunities in that period," Yalçın said.
"But I searched for the dishes that he ate during the wars." Yalçin said Prof. Mete Tuncoku, director of the Atatürk and Çanakkale Research Center at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, aided her in her research.Yalçın’s restaurant was a ruined building before the restoration. "We removed two trucks of garbage from the building. Now it is an enviable place," she said.
The first-floor restaurant has authentic decoration in all its rooms, including old radios, mirrors and wall hangings. There are regular tables in two rooms and a floor table in a third room. After dinner, guests can drink Turkish coffee in the garden of the building.