2014 event archive The original content and images are preserved. Participation and registration instructions refer to the past event, not an upcoming invitation.
ANITKABİRDEYİZ · A MEMORY WE MADE TOGETHER
6,000 volunteers. We were at Anıtkabir.
TOGETHER, WE CREATED THE WORLD’S LARGEST PORTRAIT OF ATATÜRK. Our thanks to everyone who supported us…
- First portrait · İzmir
- 2012 2,400 people
- Portrait & signature · Bursa
- 2013 5,990 people
- Anıtkabir · Ankara
- 2014 6,000 volunteers
#Anıtkabirdeyiz
The project was first held in İzmir on 10 November 2012, when 2,400 people came together to create a living portrait of the great leader ATATÜRK. It was repeated the following year, on Republic Day, 29 October 2013, with 5,990 people and the addition of ATATÜRK’s signature.
Photographer Cumhur Aygün’s interactive project was then held at Anıtkabir with 6,000 participants, making history as the world’s largest portrait of ATATÜRK.
The portrait formed by 6,000 people coming together at Anıtkabir was captured in aerial photographs. Video documentaries covering the preparations and the completed event would also leave a record for posterity.
With permission from the Turkish General Staff and support from the Anıtkabir Command, the event took place in Anıtkabir’s Ceremonial Plaza at 13:00 on 26 August 2014, with 6,000 volunteers.
The people of Türkiye are the heroic children of a nation that has lived freely and independently for centuries and has regarded independence as a condition of life. This nation has never lived without independence; it cannot and will not do so.
It could be said that we need nothing except one thing, which we need very much: to be hardworking.
O rising new generation! The future is yours. We founded the Republic; you will raise it and sustain it.
The Republic is a form of government founded on high moral values and qualities. The Republic is virtue. Republican government nurtures virtuous and honourable people.
The signal we give one another is: forward! Forward, always forward.
Great achievements and important undertakings are possible only through working together.
The Turkish nation’s ability and firm resolve are to advance along the path of republicanism, civilisation and progress, without stopping or losing heart.
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More than a photograph
AnıtkabirThe original illustrated account of Anıtkabir: its construction, Peace Park, ten towers, Lion Road, Ceremonial Plaza, reliefs, mausoleum and museum.↗
Why?Why 26 August was chosen: the Great Offensive of 1922 and the purpose of the original Anıtkabirdeyiz event.↗
How?The original 2014 participation guide: registration, numbered places, aerial photography and the instructions given to the 6,000 volunteers.↗
The teamThe original Anıtkabirdeyiz team: project leadership, production, organisation, design, operations, photographers, camera operators and the octocopter crew.↗Photo archiveThe event, Anıtkabir, portraits of Atatürk and the project’s original visual identity. 35 archive images.↗Source: the original published Anıtkabirdeyiz pages and media archive. The historical account and quotation references have been retained. English quotations are translations of the archived Turkish text. Inclusion here does not grant permission to reuse the images.