Ankara  is a modern city and way smaller than Istanbul. Driving into and out of the city was very easy with a pleasing amount of traffic on the roads. The hightlights, the political capital of Turkey has to offer, can be visited in two days, if necessary.
Every visitor is climbing up the hill to see the Citadel, an old castle, which offers scienic views all over the big city.

Anit Kabir is the Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and includes the Atatürk Museum as well. It is very close to the city centre and a must for foreign visitors as well as for locals, too.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

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