Florya Ataturk Marine Mansion
It is known that Florya, which is a residential area between Yeşilköy and Küçükçekmece on the Marmara Sea coast of the Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion, was a dull hunter's haunt in the 19th century. Florya, which gained importance with Atatürk's interest here, gradually turned into a summer recreation center.
The mansion, which was built for Ataturk by the architect Seyfi Arkan, who won the project competition opened by the Istanbul Municipality in 1935, was built on columns driven into the seabed as a summer residence and connected to the land by a bridge. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed in the mansion, which was opened for use on August 14, 1935, between June and July 1936, and used the mansion especially for political and scientific meetings, including British King Henry VIII. He hosted some important guests here, including Edward and Madam Simpson.
The mansion was last used by Atatürk on May 28, 1938, and after his death, these buildings were used as the summer residence of the President of the Republic of Turkey during the periods of İsmet İnönü, Celal Bayar, Cemal Gürsel, Cevdet Sunay, Fahri Korutürk and Kenan Evren.
This group of buildings, which was transferred to the Department of National Palaces by the Presidency on September 16, 1988, was turned into the Atatürk Museum after its restoration was completed, furnished with period furniture to match the style of the mansion built with a modern approach in its period.Some of the Adjutant's Office and General Secretariat buildings, which were built on the land behind the Atatürk Mansion, have not survived to the present day, and the remaining ones were repaired and turned into the social facilities of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Source Türkiye Culture Portal History of Istanbul