Abdi İpekçi Peace Monument

Abdi İpekçi Peace Monument
Abdi İpekçi Barış Anıtı
The monument in 2017.
LocationAbdi İpekçi Street
Coordinates41°02′58″N 28°59′30″E / 41.04944°N 28.99167°E / 41.04944; 28.99167
DesignerGürdal Duyar
Typesculpture
MaterialBronze
Height3.5 metres (11 ft)
Completion date1999
Opening date1 February 2000 (2000-02-01)
Dedicated toAbdi İpekçi
Websitewww.sisligezirehberi.com/rehber/abdi-ipekci-baris-aniti/
Inventory CodeTR.ANT.34.35.14.001

The Abdi İpekçi Peace Monument is a monument sculpted by Gürdal Duyar, commissioned by the Şişli Municipality in 2000 in honor of the editor-in-chief of the Milliyet newspaper Abdi İpekçi and erected at the place where he was assassinated in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1979.

The monument, which was erected on 2000, follows the renaming of Emlak Street to Abdi İpekçi Street in 1979, the Abdi İpekçi Peace and Friendship Prize in 1980, and the Abdi İpekçi Arena in commemorating İpekçi.