24.01.2025 22:20
Historian Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı donated his library, which he described as "my most valuable asset," for the 'İlber Ortaylı Library' that will be established by the Muğla Metropolitan Municipality in the old Halkbank building it purchased in Menteşe.
Historian Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı came to Muğla to provide guidance on the projects to be carried out in the Muğla City Memory building and the 'İlber Ortaylı Library' to be established in the old Halkbank building purchased by the Muğla Metropolitan Municipality in Menteşe.
'İLBER OUR TEACHER DONATED HIS LIBRARY TO MUĞLA' Muğla Metropolitan Mayor Ahmet Aras announced that İlber Hocanın donated his library to Muğla for the 'İlber Ortaylı Library' to be opened in the old bank building located in the city center while providing information about the details of the projects.
'NOTHING IS EVER FOCUSED ON THESE' Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı, stating that Muğla is a province that constantly receives migration and is experiencing water shortages, said that it is necessary to prefer fewer but wealthy tourists. Ortaylı said, "The future of this place is rational tourists and rational residents. In other words, the people who come here should look like the people on the Greek Islands. Nothing is ever focused on these. Such tourism. Well, tourism has little benefit, and there can be wealthy tourists too. If ignorant people try to visit your ruins, you will only have to clean up the trash," he said.
IT WILL BE IN THE HEART OF MUĞLA Mayor Aras said, "We wanted to determine what we can do in Muğla under the guidance of our teacher, actually with a bit of his direction. Our goal is to combine the ancient history of Muğla and all its qualities with education and tourism. With the steps we will take, we aim to ensure that Menteşe, and Muğla in general, can at least take a piece of the share it receives from tourism. In other words, we want to bring some economic contributions to our city as well. You know we have purchased the Halk Bank building. From the very first day, we have been discussing with my esteemed teacher what the function of this place would be, and he kindly promised to donate his library to us, and we accepted it. We thank him very much. This will be a very valuable gift for us and for future generations. There will also be a cultural center and library there, and it will be named after our esteemed teacher İlber Ortaylı. And it will also be used as a research center, a promotion research center, right in the heart of Muğla, in Cumhuriyet Square, we will have activated this museum, or rather the library and cultural center," he said.