The house in Thessaloniki, located on the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea in Greece, where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Türkiye, was born and lived until he was 7 years old, is a popular destination for tourists from Greece and special tours organized from Türkiye. The key to the house, which the Municipality of Thessaloniki decided to purchase and present to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1933 on the occasion of the anniversary of Türkiye's founding, was handed over to the Turkish Consulate General in Thessaloniki in 1937. Opened as a museum to visitors in 1953, the house took its current form after extensive restoration in 2012.
The house, which hosts visitors from Türkiye and all around the world, is one of the must-visit museums, especially for Turks vacationing in Greece during the summer. Every day, hundreds of people visit the house through special tours organized from Türkiye. Located right next to the Turkish Consulate General in Thessaloniki, the external façade of the Atatürk House facing the street features a marble plaque with the inscription "Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the renovator of the Republic of Türkiye and supporter of the Balkan Union, was born here," hung on Oct.
29, 1933, the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Türkiye. Visitors are greeted in the courtyard by a tree planted by Ali Rıza Efendi, under which Atatürk played as a child, and a panel describing the history of the house. The three-s.