Kivanc KilincKilinç, Kivanç2025-10-0620170935-560X1527-199410.2979/histmemo.29.2.022-s2.0-85029576745http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/histmemo.29.2.02https://gcris.yasar.edu.tr/handle/123456789/6086https://doi.org/10.2979/histmemo.29.2.02This article seeks to shed light on the journey of the Hittite sun disk a cult object from the Early Bronze Age from the architectural narrative and discursive boundaries of a public museum to the streets of contemporary Ankara. First it explores the role that the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations played through the invention of secular symbols in (re) defining modern Turkish identity. Then it probes into the processes by which the sun disk became an increasingly popular and yet controversial political symbol. In doing so the article examines how a state-sanctioned memory-making project heralded a clash of imaginations: conservative and Islamist versus secular-leftist urban identities embodying conflicting visions of Ankara's past and future.Englishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessHittite sun disk, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, secularism, political Islam, national identity, spatial politics, AnkaraSpatial PoliticsHittite Sun DiskMuseum of Anatolian CivilizationsAnkaraPolitical IslamNational IdentitySecularismArticle