Victory Museum

The museum is in Afyonkarahisar City Centre, located at a prime vicinity throughout Afyonkarahisar Fort and Victory Monument. This two-storey constructing became built via Saitoglu Mehmet Sait Efendi in pre-Republican period between 1915 and 1920. It contains the general traits of Neoclassical architecture. Its making plans is a traditional Anatolian house. It was used as the Afyon Municipal Council building until the new Council building built in 1930. After the construction of the present Council building, it became allotted to the Police Department. In 1985, with the aid of the National Estates Department, it changed into transferred to the Historic National Parks Directorate to be used as Victory Museum.

The Directorate formally took over the constructing on 11 September 1986 and the Directorate moved into the constructing in 1992. Reconstruction and refurbishment of the building are nonetheless underway. The constructing has a totally essential vicinity inside the history of the National Struggle of existence and death inside the duration of 1919 - 1922. Right after the liberation of Afyonkarahisar on 27 August 1922, Commander - in - Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha and Western Front Commander Ismet Pasha, Chief of General Staff Fevzi Cakmak Pasha and Western Front Chief of Operations Tevfik Pasha stayed in and used the constructing because the Headquarters.