The Scale Policy of the New Turkey's Places of Memory

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Abstract

According to Aristotle's golden ratio principle, the scale is not a result of mathematical imagination; it includes an understanding of the laws of equilibrium that are indexed at a concrete rate at which they are rationalized. However, in the AKP's "New Turkey" the production of places of memory and the allegedly "rising" reputation are indexed to the world's largest mosques, the largest city hospitals, the largest airports, the longest bridge in the state. The AKP places the scale of its interventions in spaces with a more symbolic dimension in terms of permanence, strength and reputation, but ignores the issues of architectural perspective, purpose of use and interaction with the environment. On the other hand, gigantomania as a concept describing the construction of disproportionately large monuments and structures for power worshipers in the period of the Nazis or the Soviet Union is expressed as an attempt to reinforce legitimacy from the past by presenting the future projects of the governments who cannot produce future politics in the insecurity of the global world. So in this case the "New Turkey's places of memory, how should we read this venue politics based on scalar competition between venues with Turkey: the New "big" Turkey's growing prestige or is going legitimacy loss suffered by a ruling of the weakness and accumulation strategies in favor of creating the unjust enrichment camouflaged effort?

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MSA113
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Phd
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Ankara University

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