Kızılay Zafer Parkı

About Kızılay Zafer Parkı

Kızılay Zafer Parkı is a small city-centre park in Kızılay Mahallesi, between the Ankara Bar Association training centre (Ankara Barosu Eğitim Merkezi) and the Sıhhiye officers club (Sıhhiye Orduevi). It is a different place from the large 30 Ağustos Zafer Parkı next to AŞTİ and from the Zafer Park run by Çankaya Municipality in Birlik. The park had been neglected for a long time before Ankara Metropolitan Municipality renewed it and reopened it to the public. In April 2024 the municipality announced that it had started work on a Foreign Ministry Martyrs Monument (Dışişleri Şehitleri Anıtı) for the park, to keep alive the memory of Foreign Ministry staff and ambassadors killed by the terrorist organisation ASALA. On 10 January 2024 it had written to the Foreign Ministry asking it to name members for the committee that would assess the monument design. The sources checked do not say whether the monument has been completed. According to Yandex Maps, the park lies on Ihlamur Caddesi by the Kızılay metro station, which makes it an easy green stop in the centre of Kızılay.