Kadıköy Municipality: Let the train stations be museums

Kadıköy Municipality: Let the train stations be museums.Kadıköy Municipality, "by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Istanbul No 5 Cultural Heritage Preservation Board" 1. The Group is preparing to apply to the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications for the use of 6 stations between Haydarpaşa and Bostancı, registered as "Cultural Heritage", as a museum or cultural center. The request of the municipality is to use Göztepe, Kızıltoprak, Feneryolu, Erenköy, Suadiye and Bostancı stations as a museum or cultural center.

YOU CAN THINK AN IMAGE THAT THE TRAIN STATION IS NOT

Reminding the Ministry that they made two requests for the use of stations, which are the original structures of railway architecture, as museums or cultural centers. Kadıköy Mayor Aykurt Nuhoğlu said, “These buildings are registered by the Council of Monuments. Historical artifacts. It cannot be demolished in any way. KadıköyThe residents of these buildings want their identity to be preserved. Can you imagine a Göztepe without a train station? It is impossible to even imagine. "Our attitude is to keep these train stations with their identities, become museums, protect them with an identity associated with culture and art activities and carry them into the future".

Stating that the process regarding Haydarpaşa, the first stop of the train stations on the Anatolian side, continues, Nuhoğlu said, “We have been told that Haydarpaşa will be preserved in its current state and this identity will continue. A decision has been made to suspend the execution of the project. The process continues, ”he said.

SUNAY AKIN: STATIONS MUST BE THE THEMATIC MUSEUM

Author Sunay Akın, who founded the 'Toy Museum' in Göztepe, requested the museum or cultural center as the "Culture Line" of the stations when he was a member of the Municipal Council in 2009. Defending that the stations that will remain idle today should be considered as museums, Sunay Akın said, “Museums are the memory of the societies, they are the brains, the information temples of the culture of living together. Haydarpaşa Train Station is the wardrobe of Anatolia. Haydarpaşa Train Station should be a museum where Anatolian civilizations are told, and 6 train stations should be turned into a thematic museum ”.

KIZILTOPRAK TRAIN STATION MUST BE THE VECİHİ HÜRKUŞ AVIATION MUSEUM

Akın said, “Kızıltoprak train station should be the Vecihi Hürkuş Aviation Museum. Because the hero of our Republican history, Aviator Vecihi Hürkuş, is from Kızıltoprak. There was an airport in Kuşdili meadow. "

THE HISTORY OF HAREM NETWORKS IN GÖZTEPE TRAIN STATION

II. Explaining that Nadir Ağa, one of Abdülhamit's companions, was sitting next to Göztepe train station, Akın said, “We know that there were eunuchs in the Ottoman Empire with Nadir Ağa. Can't their history be told? " said.

WHY NOT SHOULD BE SHOWN IN THE KIBRIT BOX IN SARIKAMIŞ

Lieutenant Fuad, who was captured during the Sarıkamış Operation, KadıköyReminding that he was a member of the city, Sunay Akın said, “Thousands of our soldiers are martyred in Sarıkamış, some of them remain prisoners in Siberia for about 2,5 years. One of them is Lieutenant Fuad. Two handmade notebooks are left from Lieutenant Fuad, large enough to fit inside the matchbox. He wrote down his experiences in exile in Siberia on the notebook inside that matchbox and made pictures. He is standing in a house now. Isn't that curious? Why aren't these displayed? " said.

RESPONSIBLE MINISTRY OF CULTURE

KadıköySunay Akın, who argued that the decision of how to evaluate the 6 historical stations located in Istanbul should be made by the Ministry of Culture, not the Ministry of Transport, called the Ministry of Culture. According to the news in the press, the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communication stated that “Göztepe train station will not be demolished and will be preserved as it is. A new and modern station will be built and used within the scope of the Marmaray Project, 400 meters west of the existing station ”.