Guide
The Victory Museum in Afyonkarahisar is a military and war museum founded in 1985 and devoted to the great offensive of August 1922 during the Turkish war of independence.
The building served as headquarters for the commander-in-chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the chief of the general staff and the army commanders around the time of that offensive. After Afyon was freed from occupation on 27 August 1922 it was used as the headquarters of the Western Front by Mustafa Kemal Pasha, İsmet İnönü, Fevzi Çakmak Pasha and Tevfik Bıyıkoğlu. Because the decisive battle was planned here, the building carries a good deal of importance.
It was built in 1913 and 1914 by the mayor Esbabzade Hüseyin Tevfik Efendi, together with the government house, to serve as the municipal offices. After the new municipal building was put up in 1935 the old one was vacated and served various purposes until 1985, when it was transferred to the directorate of the Commander-in-Chief Historical National Park to be made into the Victory Museum.
The building was put up by Armenian craftsmen. It is a masonry structure of two floors with three doors, on the east, west and south. The numbers of windows on the two floors are equal: those on the lower floor have flattened arches and those on the upper pointed ones, and the corners are worked in projecting cut stone.
On the ground floor are ten rooms and a meeting hall with a stage; on the upper floor eight rooms, an entrance hall and a large hall.
