{"id":46540,"date":"2011-11-10T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=46540"},"modified":"2014-01-06T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:28:58","slug":"ataturks-favorite-hotel-still-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/11\/10\/ataturks-favorite-hotel-still-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s favorite hotel still doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"

VERC\u0130HAN Z\u0130FL\u0130O\u011eLU<\/p>\n

Once home to the most elegants ball of the times, Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s favorite Hotel, Tokatl\u0131yan, is now facing an unknown future. Considered as a great piece of architecture, the hotel has been waiting for a restoration for the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

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The 117-year old Tokatl\u0131yan Hotel stands in the middle of Istanbul\u2019s most crowded Istiklal Street, in Beyo\u011flu district. DAILY NEWS photo, Hasan ALTINI\u015eIK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Once a favorite haunt of modern Turkey\u2019s founder, Istanbul\u2019s legendary Tokatl\u0131yan-Pera Hotel continues to face an uncertain future due to a lack of plans to renovate the severely dilapidated building.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Mustafa Kemal] Atat\u00fcrk not only organized balls but also hosted his guests at a rich table during tea hours. It is so unfortunate that the hotel is now in a ruined state,\u201d Professor Afife Batur, a scholar on architectural history at Istanbul Technical University, recently told the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News. \u201cThe hotel was a pioneer as a building in many ways. The first known hotel posters in Turkey belonged to the Tokatl\u0131yan-Pera.\u201d<\/p>\n

Considered by scholars to be a significant architectural achievement, the Tokatl\u0131yan-Pera is one of the best examples of fin-de-si\u00e8cle architecture in Turkey.<\/p>\n

The hotel belongs to the \u00dc\u00e7 Horan Armenian Church Foundation, one of the richest foundations of Turkey\u2019s Armenian community.<\/p>\n

The foundation\u2019s administration, which has remained unchanged for 30 years, has chosen not to adopt any of the numerous renovation proposals that have been submitted over the years.<\/p>\n

The hotel was built by M\u0131g\u0131rdi\u00e7 Tokatl\u0131yan, an Ottoman citizen of Armenian origin who migrated from the northern province of Tokat and adopted the last name Tokatl\u0131yan. The hotel was opened in 1897 with 160 rooms and hosted a number of celebrities, later becoming a favorite of Atat\u00fcrk.<\/p>\n

Emphasizing the significance of the Tokatl\u0131yan-Pera in regard to architecture, Batur said: \u201cIt was such a popular building that the Orient Express would transport all of Europe\u2019s high society and the elite to this hotel and elegant balls were held there. These balls would generate several stories for the world tabloid press as well as the Turkish press.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another branch of the Tokatl\u0131yan-Pera called the Tokatl\u0131yan-Therabia was situated on the Bosphorus at the exact location of the present-day Tarabya Hotel, Batur said.<\/p>\n

Architectural history specialist Dr. Fatma Sedes said the Tokatl\u0131yan-Pera was the apple of the eye of Istanbul and European elites, as well as other political figures. \u201cIt was a unique building that left its mark on Istanbul\u2019s architecture,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

via Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s favorite hotel still doomed – Hurriyet Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VERC\u0130HAN Z\u0130FL\u0130O\u011eLU Once home to the most elegants ball of the times, Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s favorite Hotel, Tokatl\u0131yan, is now facing an unknown future. Considered as a great piece of architecture, the hotel has been waiting for a restoration for the last 30 years.   Once a favorite haunt of modern Turkey\u2019s founder, Istanbul\u2019s legendary Tokatl\u0131yan-Pera Hotel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[6888,4259,7462],"class_list":["post-46540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-armenians-in-istanbul","tag-ataturk-features","tag-tokatliyan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540","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=46540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}