Statue of Honor (), aka Atatürk Monument, is a monument situated at Atatürk Park in

İlkadım Ilkadim is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 155 km2, and its population is 333,518 (2022). It is located on the coast of Black Sea. The district has an altitude of 5 meters.It is also the most populous dist ...

district of

Samsun Samsun is a List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, city on the north coast of Turkey and a major Black Sea port. The urban area recorded a population of 738,692 in 2022. The city is the capital of Samsun Province which has a population of ...

, Turkey dedicated to the landing of

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

in Samsun initiating what is later termed the

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. The monument became a landmark of Samsun.

History

The equestrian statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was commissioned in 1927 by the province governor of Samsun, Kâzım Pasha (İnanç) to the

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n sculptor Heinrich Krippel, who had won the juried art competition to create the Victory Monument in Ankara depicting equestrian Atatürk. The construction of the bronze statue took place in

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from 1928 to 1931. It was mounted on its base in Samsun on October 29, 1931, the

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. The monument was officially inaugurated on January 15, 1932. It is the thirteenth monument to Atatürk and Krippel's fourth artwork in Turkey. The bronze statue depicting equestrian Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is high while the total height of the monument is . In addition to the honorary to the artist of US$5,500, the construction of the monument cost US$37,000. The statue's

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process was carried out at Vereinigte Metallwerke in Austria. The 32 pieces were transported in boxes from

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, Germany to Turkey aboard SS ''Nicea'' of the Deutsche Levante-Linie arriving in Samsun on October 15, 1931.

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