Buca Municipality has agreed with sculptor Harun Atalayman to have a monument dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk built.

[3] The sculpture, the construction of which started in 2006, was completed in 2009 at a cost of ₺4.2 million.

[5][6] In 2018, after being damaged by weather and climate, help was asked from trained mountain climbers with the repairs, because a crane is not able to access some locations of the monument.

[7][2] The Atatürk Mask, at 42 m (138 ft) high, is the highest relief sculpture in Turkey, and the tenth highest relief sculpture in the world.

[8] To be more specific, the monument is steel structure containing a space truss system.