Last day to see ‘Modern Essays’
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1930s newspapers in Ankara often published articles and photographs celebrating Ankara’s “seas” and “shores” as “modern recreational spaces of the new capital.” Ankara, at the time, an arid, drought-ridden steppe, was grafted with these “shores” and “seas” which were, in fact, modern hydraulic infrastructures, part of the modernization project of the Turkish Republic. These modern projects of a “modern” geography are cultivars, propagated by grafting an Ottoman scion onto an Anatolian root, as Istanbul’s waterfront geography was grafted onto Ankara’s barren land.