The "Presidency" library, with millions of books, which is the largest library in Turkey, attracts the interest of thousands of Turkish citizens and residents, as it welcomes book lovers of all ages and takes them on a cultural and knowledge journey.

The library was opened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the participation of President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shaukat Mirdiyev and a large number of guests in the presidential complex in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on February 20.

The library - considered to be the largest in Turkey - was designed by mixing Seljuk and Ottoman artists, in addition to contemporary art.

Construction began in 2016 with a closed area of ​​125,000 square meters, with an estimated capacity of 5,000 people.

The library contains 4 million printed books, more than 120 million electronic publications, in addition to 550,000 electronic books and rare antique books.

The library started receiving visitors from the Turks and all nationalities from the first day of its opening, where about 6 thousand people visited it on the first day, according to information gathered by the Anatolian correspondent, and the library receives visitors throughout the week and 24 hours.

Citizens and residents can obtain library membership through the e-government portal on the Internet, and foreign citizens can also benefit from library services by obtaining "temporary entry cards".

For children between the ages of 5 and 10 years, the library has allocated special sections for them, to contribute to increasing their attachment to the book.

The Presidency Library has built a library for children called the "Nasreddin Khuja" library (Juha with Arabic literature), and the child can move between groups of 25 thousand books.

It also contains a youth library, audio library and video halls for users between the ages of 10 and 15, and it offers free tea, coffee, water and cake to visitors.

Quran and manuscripts
The library provides visitors with an opportunity to see 78 manuscripts belonging to the Presidency of the Turkish Manuscripts Authority, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, Hagia Sophia Museum, Istanbul Archeology Museums, Istanbul University Library of rare manuscripts and Topkapi Palace Museum by visiting the "Trace of Ink and Manuscripts" exhibition within the Presidential Library.

The exhibition contains a copy of the book "Diwan of Turkish Languages", which is the first comprehensive Turkish-Arabic dictionary and a geographical atlas prepared by Turkish linguist Mahmoud Al-Kashgari between 1072 and 1074 in Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate at that time.

It also contains samples of ancient Turkish poetry, which represented all major types of poetry, epics, wisdom, lyric and inheritance poetry.

In addition to the foregoing, the exhibition also contains books of supplications in the Syriac language, the Old and New Testaments (the Torah and the Bible), in addition to an honorable Qur'an that weighs 65 kilograms.

As for the exhibition, which carries the name "The Royal Line" (Humayun Line) - it contains thousands of royal decrees selected from millions of documents issued during the era of the Ottoman Empire and the first Republican era and found in the national archives (archives) that bear the name "Treasury of Ideas".

The exhibition includes many royal decrees issued in different historical periods, starting from the era of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent until the reign of Sultan Wahid al-Din, the last of the Sultans of Uthman.