METU Atatürk Monument
The Atatürk Monument is a monument dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, located at the Ankara Campus of the Faculty of Arts and Sciencesin Middle East Technical University. The competition for the monument started in 1965, in which Şadi Çalık came in first place. In 1966, Çalık completed the monument. The bronze monument is Turkey's first abstract monument to Atatürk.
On November 10, 2016, on the death day of Atatürk, a ceremony was held by METU people in front of the monument
