Zafer Museum – Afyonkarahisar

The building that houses the Zafer (Victory) Museum was constructed between 1913 and 1914 by Armenian master builders during the tenure of Mayor Esbabzade Hüseyin Tevfik Efendi. Designed as a two-story masonry municipal building to accompany the Government House, it features three entrances—on the east, west, and south sides. The building’s lower and upper windows are equal in number; the ground-floor windows have flattened arches, while the upper-floor windows exhibit pointed arches framed with protruding cut-stone details.
The ground floor consists of ten rooms, a meeting hall, and a stage, while the upper floor includes eight rooms, an anteroom, and a large hall.

After Afyon was liberated from enemy occupation on 27 August 1922, the municipal building gained historic significance when it served as the Western Front headquarters. It was here that Commander-in-Chief Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Western Front Commander İsmet İnönü, Chief of General Staff Fevzi Çakmak, and Western Front Operations Chief Tevfik Bıyıklıoğlu planned the Great Offensive and the Battle of the Commander-in-Chief.
When a new municipal building was completed in 1935, the original structure was vacated and used for various purposes until 1985, when it was transferred to the Directorate of the Başkomutan National Historical Park to be restored as the Zafer Museum.

Today, the museum displays 213 artifacts related to the Turkish War of Independence, including photographs, documents, maps, panels, defense equipment, weapons, barbed wire, food tins used on the front, and a silver ceremonial scissors specially crafted for the inauguration of the Victory Monument.
The rooms once used by Atatürk, İsmet İnönü, Fevzi Çakmak, Tevfik Bıyıkoğlu, and other commanders have been faithfully restored and opened to visitors since 1995.