Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo

Atatürk Orman Çiftliği ve Hayvanat Bahçesi (AOC short, English Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo ) is a vast recreational and agricultural area in the Turkish capital Ankara, which contains a zoo, several small farms, greenhouses, restaurants, a dairy and a brewery. It was opened by the country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Forest Farm as 1925, 1933, added a zoo. 1936 to 1937 the park from the Austrian architect Ernst Arnold Egli has been extended. The farm and the zoo are now under the administration of the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Village Affairs.

Forest Farm

The Ankara Forest Farm was built by founder Atatürk as a private farm in 1925. In 1937 he donated the farm to the Turkish state. The farm is an exact replica of the house, was born in the Ataturk in 1881 in Selânik in the Ottoman Empire to see.

Visitors to the farm can taste the products of the farm in a traditional restaurant ( Merkez Lokantası ) as stale beer, fresh milk products, ice cream and fried on charcoal meat rolls and kebabs. Other catering areas are present on the farm.

Zoo

The Ankara Zoo ( Ankara Hayvanat Bahçesi ) is a 32 -acre zoological garden, which was founded in 1933. Atatürk was regarded as animals and nature as friend. The zoological garden houses some big cats, various birds, monkeys, ungulates, and snakes, as well as a larger aquarium. He breeds and sells Angora cats.