Kızılay Square

The Red Crescent building was demolished in 1993 and replaced by the present-day Kızılay AVM shopping mall, which – after a long legal process regarding its ownership rights – was opened in 2011.

)[4] In those years, the city center was located to the north of Kızılay, but Ankara was redesigned by a group of urban planners including Hermann Jansen.

[10] Kızılay is a stop in the routes of most of the public buses operating both in the south–north and east–west directions.

[11] The station of the Ankaray light rail is located below the metro terminal.

Kızılay is a central station of Ankaray which connects the northeast of Ankara to the west of the city center.

Kızılay Square with Emek Business Center on the left, Güvenpark and Kızılay AVM on the right side.
A view of the Kızılay AVM Shopping Center at Kızılay Square
Kızılay Square, with the later relocated Su Perileri (Water Fairies) monumental fountain, c. 1930. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
A view of the Kızılay Park and Güven Park in the 1940s, with the Cemil Ubaydın Mansion in the background, at left.