The Nation Library of the Presidency also referred to as the Presidential Library by common people, is the largest library in Turkey, with a collection of over four million books in 134 different languages, and 120 million articles and reports. The Presidential Library, which has the largest incipient collection in the world, was officially inaugurated by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on February 20, 2020. In addition to receiving a copy of materials printed in the country, as a depository library, the Presidential Library also receives books, in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry, from every country where Turkey has a diplomatic mission. It is home to the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages, compiled in 1072–74 by the Turkic scholar Mahmud Kashgari, among many other manuscripts and rare books. Located inside the Presidential Complex, the Library is 125,000 square meters and can accommodate up to 5,000 readers at a time. The library building is decorated with white and pink marble, designed with traditional Seljuk, Ottoman and contemporary motifs.
The Presidential Library is designed to be accessible with wheelchair, and the country's leading telecommunications companies, Turkcell and Türk Telekom, prepared technology rooms for visually- and hearing-impaired users.
Cihannuma Hall
The Cihannuma Hall, decorated with sixteen columns representing the 16 Great Turkic Empires, houses a collection of 200,000 books and has a seating capacity for 224 readers at a time in an area of 3,500 square meters. The dome of the Cihannuma Hall is 32 meters high and 27 meters wide. The verses four and five of the chapter Al-Alaq from Quran, which are believed by Muslims to be the first verses to be related to Muhammad, on the significance of reading and writing are inscribed on the dome of the hall: "O, kalemle yazmayı öğretendir, insana bilmediğini öğretendir". Books brought in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry on the culture and history of the countries where Turkey has a diplomatic mission are displayed in the World Library inside Cihannuma Hall.
The Nasreddin Hodja Children's Library, named after the famous Seljuk satirist Nasreddin Hodja, is available for readers between the ages five and ten, with its collection of 25 thousand books and a multimedia section. The Children's Library provides activities related to traditional Turkish arts.
Youth Library
The Youth Library, which is available for readers between the ages ten and fifteen, has a collection of 12 thousand books, and contains individual and group study rooms.
Multimedia Library
The Multimedia Library contains 12 individual study rooms for 4 digital rooms that are equipped with touchscreen monitors and offer access to TRT archives and nearly 10 thousand audio-vision materials.
Periodicals Hall
The Periodicals Hall has a collection of 1,550 magazines and newspapers and offers access to 90-day archive of 7,000 dailies and magazines from 120 countries in 60 languages in full page on touchscreen monitors that also features catalog search.
Reading Rooms
The Reading Rooms have a collection of 300,000 books and 32 group study rooms and 8 lounges.
300 thousand manuscripts within the Manuscripts Institution of Turkey, and
550 thousand e-books, 6.5 million e-dissertations, 120 million articles, 60 thousand e-magazines from 46 databases, to which the Turkish Academic Network and Information Center and the Presidency are subscribed.
