Spatial analysis of the Republican Revolution: From Payitaht Istanbul to the Revolutionary Capital Ankara

In this study, it is aimed to create a historical and theoretical framework for the spatial analysis of the everyday life that designed through the spatial arrangements in the new capital Ankara with the Republican Revolution. The assumption that Ankara, the place of revolution, can only be analyzed from a historical point of view within the scope of the evaluations of the lifestyle adopted by the new political regime has been guiding. This thesis' historical perspective is embodied in the triple structure in which space and alienation are evaluated together, in accordance with the spatial analysis, the theoretical ground of which was largely created by making use of Henri Lefebvre: alienation from space, alienation in space and alienation of space. The space-alienation trio is interpreted within the framework of Lefebvre's transduction method based on thinking on the virtual object. Accordingly, the Republic was determined as the virtual object, and the Galata-Pera region as another Lefebvrian concept of utopia of the virtual object. In Republican Turkey, which inherited the legacy of alienation from the Ottoman ancient régime (1453-1703) and alienation in space from Istanbul, necessary arrangements were made to embody a daily life in public spaces based on the socialization of a lifestyle like that in Pera. However, the structure of the new lifestyle, largely devoid of any economic basis, resulted in the alienation of a space that pointed to the class limits of the Revolution.