Akdeniz (1980) is a monumental sculpture by Turkish sculptor İlhan Koman, originally erected at Büyükdere Avenue in Levent, Istanbul, in 1980.

One of Istanbul's most well-known sculptures,[2][3] it is a figure of a woman with open arms formed out of 112 equally spaced 12-millimetre-thick (0.47 in) sheet metal strips.

[4] In 1981, the sculpture earned İlhan Koman the Sedat Simavi Foundation Visual Arts Award.

[2] People protesting Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict ravaged the sculpture, which was situated next to the Israeli Consulate in Levent, Istanbul.

[7] The sculpture was restored and moved to the Yapı Kredi Culture Centre building on İstiklal Avenue in 2017.