Sıhhiye Square

Because the former main building of the Ministry of Health was facing Sıhhiye Square from the east.

Its longer dimension is on the 300 metres (980 ft)-broden section of Atatürk Boulevard running from north to south.

Before Republican times center of the city was to the north and in place of the square there was a creek.

After the Turkish Republic was proclaimed, Ankara was redesigned by a group of urban planners including Hermann Jansen.

[1] A massive replica of one of the Hattian Alaca Höyük bronze standards created by Turkish sculptor Nusret Suman (1905–1978) was erected in the middle of Sıhhiye Square in 1978.