First national architectural movement

The First National Architectural Movement, also called the National Architecture Renaissance or Turkish Neoclassical architecture, was a period of Turkish architecture most prevalent between 1908 and 1930 that continued into the late 1930s. Inspired by Ottomanism, it sought to capture classical elements of Ottoman and Anatolian Seljuk architecture for use in modern buildings, and although the style focused on Ottoman aspects it was most prevalent during the first decade of the Republic of Turkey, with its most important architects being Ahmet Kemaleddin and Vedat Tek, who pioneered the movement, along with Arif Hikmet Koyunoglu and Giulio Mongeri.