Editing Ankara (section)

=== Turkish republican capital ===
[[File:Atatürk TBMM'den çıkarken.jpg|thumb|President [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] (center) and Prime Minister [[İsmet İnönü]] (left) leaving the [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey|Grand National Assembly of Türkiye]] during the 7th anniversary celebrations of the Turkish Republic in 1930]]

Following the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] defeat in [[World War I]], the Ottoman capital [[Ottoman Constantinople|Constantinople]] (modern Istanbul) and much of [[Anatolia]] was occupied by the Allies, who planned to share these lands between [[First Republic of Armenia|Armenia]], [[French Third Republic|France]], [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] and the United Kingdom, leaving for the Turks the core piece of land in central Anatolia. In response, the leader of the Turkish nationalist movement, [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], established the headquarters of his [[Turkish National Movement|resistance movement]] in Angora in 1920. After the [[Turkish War of Independence]] was won and the [[Treaty of Sèvres]] was superseded by the [[Treaty of Lausanne (1923)]], the Turkish nationalists replaced the Ottoman Empire with the [[Republic of Turkey]] on 29 October 1923. A few days earlier, Angora had officially replaced Constantinople as the new Turkish capital city, on 13 October 1923,<ref name="britannica">{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Ankara|title=Ankara &#124; Location, History, Economy, & Facts|website=Britannica|access-date=9 January 2021|archive-date=1 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101013721/https://www.britannica.com/place/Ankara|url-status=live}}</ref> and Republican officials declared that the city's name is Ankara.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/mar28/istanbul-not-constantinople/ |title=Istanbul, not Constantinople |last=Society |date=4 March 2014 |website=National Geographic Society|access-date=28 March 2019 |archive-date=3 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103152146/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/mar28/istanbul-not-constantinople/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Banks Street (Atatürk Boulevard) the Building of Ziraat Bankası (Agricultural Bank), 1930s (16851406391).jpg|thumb|left|A view of the old general directorate building of [[Ziraat Bankası|Ziraat Bank]]. It was designed by Istanbul-born [[Levantines (Latin Christians)|Italian Levantine]] architect Giulio Mongeri and built between 1926 and 1929.]]

After Ankara became the capital of the newly founded Republic of Turkey, new development divided the city into an old section, called ''Ulus'', and a new section, called ''Yenişehir''. Ancient buildings reflecting Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman history and narrow winding streets mark the old section. The new section, now centered on [[Kızılay Meydanı|Kızılay Square]], has the trappings of a more modern city: wide streets, hotels, theaters, shopping malls, and high-rises.

Government offices and foreign embassies are also located in the new section. Ankara has experienced a phenomenal growth since it was made Turkey's capital in 1923, when it was "a small town of no importance".<ref>Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer</ref> In 1924, the year after the government had moved there, Ankara had about 35,000 residents. By 1927 there were 44,553 residents and by 1950 the population had grown to 286,781. After<!--Re: "Turkish postal service law of 1930" people cannot find the text of the act so they are not sure if it really exists--> 1930, the city officially became known in Western languages as Ankara. By the late 1930s, the English name "Angora" was no longer in popular use.<ref>Deriu, Davide. "A challenge to the West: British views of republican Ankara" (Chapter 12). In: Gharipour, Mohammad and Nilay Özlü (editors). ''The City in the Muslim World: Depictions by Western Travel Writers''. [[Routledge]], 5 March 2015. {{ISBN|1317548221}}, 9781317548225. Start: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Aw3wBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279 279] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726052419/https://books.google.com/books?id=Aw3wBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA279 |date=26 July 2020 }}. CITED: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Aw3wBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA299 299] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604232048/https://books.google.com/books?id=Aw3wBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA299 |date=4 June 2020 }}.</ref>

[[File:Library Main Hall Columns.jpg|thumb|The [[Presidential Library (Turkey)|Presidential Library]] in Ankara is the largest library in Turkey, with a collection of over 4 million printed books<ref name="Presidential Library"/> and over 120&nbsp;million electronic editions<ref name="Presidential Library"/> published in 134 languages.<ref name="Presidential Library">{{cite web|url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/turkey-s-largest-library-to-be-disabled-friendly/1738322|title=Turkey's largest library to be disabled-friendly|author=Sibel Morrow|publisher=Anadolu Agency|website=aa.com.tr|date=19 February 2020}}</ref>]]

Ankara continued to grow rapidly during the latter half of the 20th century and eventually outranked [[İzmir]] as Turkey's second-largest city, after [[Istanbul]]. Ankara's urban population reached 4,587,558 in 2014, while the population of [[Ankara Province]] reached 5,150,072 in 2015.<ref name="citypopulation1">{{cite web|title=Turkey: Major cities and provinces|url=http://citypopulation.de/Turkey-C20.html|access-date=8 February 2015|website=City Population |archive-date=24 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224193933/http://www.citypopulation.de/Turkey-C20.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Presidential Complex (Turkey)|Presidential Palace of Türkiye]] is situated in Ankara. This building serves as the main residence of the president.