The Atatürk House Museum at Diyarbakır has no inscription, so the date of the building is not certain; it is thought to have gone up in the early 1900s. In 1916 it served as the headquarters of the Second Army, and until 1938 it housed the Inspectorate General. The gendarmerie repaired it in 1973 and opened it as the Atatürk Museum, and it reopened in 2015 after a restoration carried out by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as part of the İçkale project.
It stands inside the İçkale, the inner citadel of Diyarbakır, and the setting is much of the reason to go: the museum café looks out over the Hevsel Gardens, which entered the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2015. The mosque of Hz. Süleyman and the tombs of the 27 companions stand immediately next to the museum.
Admission is charged.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 1 April to 31 October 08:30 - 19:00, ticket desk closing at 18:30, open on Monday; 31 October to 1 April 08:30 - 17:00, ticket desk closing at 16:30, closed Monday
When to go
- Climate
- Across Diyarbakır as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 1.8 °C in January to 31 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (70 mm) and lightest in August (1 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
