İsmet İnönü Müze Evi

About İsmet İnönü Müze Evi

The İsmet İnönü Museum House is the modest hillside home in Konak where İsmet İnönü, the general and later second President of Turkey, was born in 1884. The house belonged to his maternal uncle. At the time his father, Reşit Bey, was serving as an assistant investigating judge at the İzmir courthouse. In his memoirs İnönü recalled spending six years of summer holidays from military school here, and described the small house on Değirmen Dağı facing the sea as still seeming to him the most beautiful mansion in the world. The house was bought for the city by Mayor Dr Behçet Uz during the presidency of İnönü. When the municipality later wanted to sell it, it was bought by İzmir businessman Şerif Remzi Reyent, who gave it to his niece Ayla Ökmen. Through her donation it is now owned by the İnönü Foundation. It reopened to visitors for the second time on 24 July 1999 with an exhibition on the Lausanne treaty, and in 2000 the metropolitan municipality renamed the street İnönü Sokağı. Visiting: Visit İzmir lists the house as closed on Saturdays and Sundays and open during daytime hours on weekdays. Call ahead to confirm before visiting.