TRIP: Turkish National Assembly

The pamphlets that the National Assembly gifted to us.

I am lucky that my university is in the capital of Turkey, which is Ankara. It allows me to see sites such as the Turkish National Assembly, where hundreds of senators from all across Turkey gather in those orange seats to make and pass laws. I felt very privileged just sitting in one of the orange seats and looking down to a vast sea of  chairs, all orchestrated to face the center. The architecture of the building was amazing and purely modern, although it was constructed nearly 50 years ago. In fact, there was a competition among architects to create the design for this building and I believe it was an Austrian architect who won. This was the third National Assembly building built since the first, which was incepted at the end of the Ottoman Empire. It is also one of the largest (physically occupying space) National Assemblies in the world, when the landscape is included.

Here is a close up.