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food to be cooked in the hope that the workers would change their minds, but the meals ended up being thrown out every day. Some workers who were leading the boycott were threatened to be kicked out of the complex, but the municipality later called this off and announced on 10 January 1973 that at least one
Turkish chef would be hired for the kitchen, ending the
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and a small mosque. It was run by the
Municipality of Amsterdam. Several other complexes for workers existed across the country; Atatürk was the largest in Amsterdam. The first 27 workers to live there were welcomed in a ceremony. These were employees for two different construction companies based in
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Turkish chef being fired in November for causing a fire in the kitchen. He was not replaced, which led to the kitchen only cooking Dutch food, without any Turkish dishes at all. The municipality still ordered
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neighborhood were published, where the Atatürk residence complex and buildings of the
Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij would need to make way for offices and businesses. The population of the site started to sharply decline in 1976. A year later, the municipality announced that the
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employees also being moved there. In 1972, tension broke out between residents and complex staff after a
Turkish chef was fired and the remaining chefs only cooked Dutch food, which ended with a new Turkish chef being hired. During the final years of the complex, workers started to bring their
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and considered to close it. In
October 1977, the complex was allowed to stay open until at least July 1978, and options were explored to extend that even further. The Atatürk complex was closed in 1978 and its barracks were later demolished. The area was used for
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families to the
Netherlands and left Atatürk for a permanent residence elsewhere. The complex was closed in 1978 due to cost issues and the buildings were demolished. A monument commemorating Atatürk has been erected in the place where the site used to be.
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A monument commemorating Atatürk by M. Turkmen was erected on a street next to the complex in 1978. It consists of a copper plate with an inscription, together with the decorative concrete elevation in front. The inscription includes the
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398:Peace at Home, Peace in the World
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696:Ayda Hasanoglu (17 April 2012).
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30:An overview of the site in 1965
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558:(in Dutch). 28 March 2023.
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386:and its appearance in 2011
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1181:(in Dutch). Aksant.
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