There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions - the bedroom in DolmabahA e Palace, Istanbul, where he died; a temporary catafalque in this same palace; his funeral stage in Turkey s new capital Ankara; a temporary tomb in the Ankara Ethnographic Museum; and his permanent and monumental mausoleum in Ankara, known in Turkish as Anitkabir (Memorial...