Ankara – Ashraf AboArafe
Actually, the 23rd on November 2024 was a remarkable day in my life as I was included in a media delegation visits the Nation’s Library of the Presidency (Turkish: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Millet Kütüphanesi), also commonly referred to as the Presidential Library, is the largest library in Ankara Turkey, with a collection of over 4 million printed books and over 120 million electronic editions published in 134 languages.
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The Presidential Library was officially inaugurated by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on February 21, 2020.[5] In addition to receiving a copy of materials printed in the country as a depository library, the Presidential Library also receives books from every country where Turkey has a diplomatic mission, in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry.
It is home to the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages, compiled in 1072–74 by the Turkic scholar Mahmud Kashgari, among many other manuscripts and rare books.
