Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo

Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo
Atatürk Orman Çiftliği ve Hayvanat Bahçesi
Type Forest farm, zoo
Location Ankara, Turkey
Coordinates 39°56′25″N 32°47′45″E / 39.94015°N 32.79582°ECoordinates: 39°56′25″N 32°47′45″E / 39.94015°N 32.79582°E
Created 1925 (Forest farm)
1933 (Zoo)[1]
Website www.aoc.gov.tr

Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo (Turkish: Atatürk Orman Çiftliği ve Hayvanat Bahçesi , in short AOÇ) is an expansive recreational farming area, which houses a zoo, several small agricultural farms, greenhouses, restaurants, a dairy farm and a brewery in Ankara, Turkey. The farm and the zoo are under the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Village Affairs.

Forest farm

The Ankara Forest Farm was established in 1925 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, as a private farm. In 1937, Atatürk donated the farm to the Turkish state. At the farm is an exact replica of the house, where Atatürk was born in 1881 in Selânik, Ottoman Empire.[2]

Visitors to the farm can sample the products of the farm such as old-fashioned beer, fresh dairy products, ice cream, and meat rolls and kebabs made on charcoal, at a traditional restaurant (Merkez Lokantası, Central Restaurant) and other areas of catering around the farm.[2]

Zoo

The Ankara Zoo (Turkish: Ankara Hayvanat Bahçesi) is a 32-hectare (79-acre) zoological garden founded in 1933 (39°56′45″N 32°47′28″E / 39.9459699°N 32.791099°E).[3] It houses some big cats, various birds, monkeys, apes, ungulates, snakes, and an aquarium.[4] The zoo also breeds and sells Angora cats.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "History". ankarazoo.gov.tr (in Turkish). Ankara Hayvanat Bahçesi. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Atatürk Orman Çiftliği" (in Turkish). AOÇ. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
  3. ↑ "Status". ankarazoo.gov.tr (in Turkish). Ankara Hayvanat Bahçesi. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
  4. ↑ "Ankara Zoo". ankarazoo.gov.tr (in Turkish). Ankara Hayvanat Bahçesi. Retrieved 2011-02-12.
  5. ↑ "Ataturk Forest Farm Zoo". ankarazoo.gov.tr. Ankara Zoo. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  6. ↑ Loeschke, S. (November 1997). "Turkish Angoras in Ankara Zoo... or on the road investigating the Turkish Angora". erkr.de. S. Loeschke. Retrieved 17 September 2011.

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