Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Turkish Studies (Elektronik), cilt.16, sa.7, ss.137-153, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
The subject of this study is the data on murals and paintings in Turan Yalçın’s house located in Ağılkaya Village of Sivas central district. Ağılkaya located about 26 km from Sivas central district is one of the villages which has been an old settlement area. There are many village chambers which are in dilapidated condition in the village. Turan Yalçın’s house is one of the two registered guest rooms today and it has survived until the present time in good condition. Turan Yalçın’s house consists of an entrance area and a single room. The entrance area of the house was used as a woodshed and catery. There are wooden pillars, a wooden ceiling rose carried by these pillars and a plaster cast oven and mihrab niches in the room which is built from rubble stones with a flat roof covered with soil. The rectangular shaped room is organized in the shape of a half-raised platform. In the ornaments of the house, murals done with paint on plaster, wood and plaster casts are used. The murals painted on plaster with red and black paint inside the house depict landscapes, the star and crescent, flowers in vases and objects such as ammunition case, bayonet rifle, the Qur’an hung together with a gun and sword, weights and gun carriage. The wooden materials are used on the ceiling and ceiling roses with the purpose of ornamentation. The plaster casts are seen on the two sides of the oven niche as oil lamps stands and embossed multi leafed flowers. The oil lamp hanging from the plaster mihrab niche is another striking ornamentation. Turan Yalçın’s house is very important in the sense that it contains ornamentations in a remote village house which is quite far from the period’s capital Istanbul.