Kâzım Karabekir Museum

The house of Turkish War of Independence hero Musa Kâzım Karabekir, turned into a museum in the Erenköy neighborhood of Kadıköy district in Istanbul. The museum, established by the Kâzım Karabekir Foundation, has been open to visitors since 2005.

In the four‑storey museum, 3,500 items, mostly books, are exhibited. Among the displayed items are a portrait of Kâzım Karabekir donated by Armenian orphans from Trabzon, Karabekir’s violin, his medals, the snow boots he wore at the front, his weapons, souvenir photographs, shrapnel that fell into his tent, and his uniform.

Kâzım Karabekir Paşa Museum can be visited free of charge on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 16:30.