Kesikbaş Türbesi is a small open tomb on Atpazarı Yokuşu in Ankara, a short way past the Aslanhane Mosque and very close to that mosque's own tomb. It stands on a small square platform: four marble columns at the corners carry capitals with chamfered corners, and above them pointed brick arches support a dome on pendentives.
The arches have a sawtooth brick cornice on their outer faces and are tied to each other above the capitals with wooden tie-beams. In the last repair the pendentives and dome were covered with whitewashed plaster. In the middle of the tomb lies a sarcophagus rendered in concrete.
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- Across Ankara as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.4 °C in January to 23.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (52 mm) and lightest in August (13 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
