{"id":45105,"date":"2011-10-13T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=45105"},"modified":"2014-01-06T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:16:13","slug":"istanbuls-halic-shipyard-celebrates-its-556-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/10\/13\/istanbuls-halic-shipyard-celebrates-its-556-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul\u2019s Hali\u00e7 Shipyard celebrates its 556 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISTANBUL – Anatolia News Agency<\/p>\n

Istanbul\u2019s historic Hali\u00e7 Shipyard, where the maintenance and renovation of ships owned by city lines and private institutions are carried out, is now 556 years old. The historical shipyard is home to cultural events<\/p>\n

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Maintenance and restoration of all city lines ships as well as the others continues in the the Hali\u00e7 Shipyard, which also hosts cultural events and planned to turn into a \u2018living museum.\u2019 AA photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three panoramic Hali\u00e7 (Golden Horn) ships were recently built in Istanbul\u2019s Hali\u00e7 Shipyard, which was built in 1455 by Fatih Sultan Mehmet and named Tersane-i Amire. The shipyard, which has a 556-year-old industrial heritage and is one of the world\u2019s oldest surviving shipyards, is also home to cultural events.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Anatolia news agency, City Lines General Director S\u00fcleyman Gen\u00e7 said Turkish and foreign academics, university students and people from art circles often visited the shipyard.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurkey\u2019s largest open-air exhibition \u2018The Residents of Hali\u00e7\u2019 and a concert by famous Belgian band DAAU were among the events that took place in the shipyard last year as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture events,\u201d he said. \u201cWe try to bring together this historic shipyard with people through cultural events. The design of the Stars of Istanbul project, organized by UNICEF, was made at the Ah\u015fabiye Atelier in the shipyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gen\u00e7 said the Culture and Tourism Ministry had some ideas to transform the shipyard into a museum. \u201cBut these ideas can be developed. There is a different atmosphere here. It can be a \u2018living museum.\u2019 We have been trying to develop this concept for three or four years. Every single thing in this shipyard has value. We should be very careful while transferring it to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maintenance and restoration of all city lines ships continues in the shipyard and will continue in the future despite its changing atmosphere. \u201cWe are planning to organize fairs in this historic and authentic environment. The Fahri Korut\u00fcrk ship was recently renewed in our shipyard and has been opened to service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the ships serving in the city lines fleet were produced in this shipyard, according to Gen\u00e7, including: \u015eehit Adem Yavuz, Caner G\u00f6nyeli, \u015eehit Karao\u011flano\u011flu, \u0130stanbul, Necati G\u00fcrkaya, Hamdi Karahasan, \u015eehit \u0130lker Karter, Z\u00fcbeyde Han\u0131m and Metin S\u00fcl\u00fc\u015f. Three panoramic Golden Horn ships named Kas\u0131mpa\u015fa, Hask\u00f6y and S\u00fctl\u00fcce were also recently built in the shipyard.<\/p>\n

Gen\u00e7 said there were also three historical docks and gravestones in the Hali\u00e7 Shipyard. \u201cThe pools were made as part of the reforms made in the Ottoman Naval Forces in the 18th and 19th centuries. The maintenance of ships is made in these dry docks,\u201d Gen\u00e7 said. \u201cSpecial stones that gather no moss have been used in these docks. These stones have been brought from the Mount Vesuvius volcano in Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISTANBUL – Anatolia News Agency Istanbul\u2019s historic Hali\u00e7 Shipyard, where the maintenance and renovation of ships owned by city lines and private institutions are carried out, is now 556 years old. The historical shipyard is home to cultural events Three panoramic Hali\u00e7 (Golden Horn) ships were recently built in Istanbul\u2019s Hali\u00e7 Shipyard, which was built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":45107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[7259,4355,2133],"class_list":["post-45105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-halic-shipyard","tag-shipyard","tag-the-turkish-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}