Göksun-Türkiye’de Bulunan Çerkes Sürgün Anıtı Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Öz

Anı parkları; din, felsefe ve sanatın kullanıcılar için önemli olduğu, şehirlerin kimliğini açıklayan yerlerdir. Başarılı bir şekilde planlanmış anı parkları, insanlar tarafından yaygın olarak kullanılmaktadır. Açık alanların başarılı bir şekilde planlanması ve sürdürülmesinde insan kullanımı temel bir gereksinimdir. Bu özel alanlar kullanılmıyorsa boştur, kullanılması durumunda ise farklı kullanıcı grupları arasında önemli etkileri vardır. Çerkesler, her yıl 21 Mayıs tarihinde, Çerkes soykırımını anmak için yas anma programları düzenlemektedirler. Bu çalışma, Türkiye'nin Kahramanmaraş ili Göksun İlçesi Fındık Mahallesi'nde bulunan ve 5 Haziran 2021 tarihinde açılan Çerkes Sürgün Anıt ve Anı Parkı'nın analiz edilmesi üzerinedir. Anı parkı üzerine yapılan değerlendirmeler, teorik ve metodolojik esaslara göre yapılmıştır. Çalışma alanında, tarihsel sürecin dinamiklerine uygun olarak Çerkes sürgününe göre şekillenmiş bir heykel ve anı parkı inşa edilmiştir. Anı parkının, tipik olarak geçmişte meydana gelmiş tarihsel olay ve zamanı sembolik bir dille yansıttığı, ziyaretçilere geçmiş ve gelecek arasındaki bilgi ve hafızanın görsel ifadesini sağladığı anlaşılmıştır. Alana yerleştirlmiş objelerin çekici odak noktasına sahip olduğu, renk ve şekiller yardımıyla hatırlatısı, öğretici özellikte olduğu belirlenmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Çerkes sürgünü
• açık alan
• anı parkı
• Göksun
• SWOT analizi

A Study on Circassian Exile Memorial Park in Göksun-Turkiye

Abstract

Memorial parks are the places where religion, philosophy and arts are important for visitors, explains the identity of the places. However, it has become understood that successful memorial parks are ones that are lively and well-used by people. Human benefits and enjoyment are basic requirements in creating successful places in open spaces. These special fields are often empty of people or if used, have significant conflicts between different user groups. Circassians celebrate the day when the Circassian deportation was launched 21 May every year, as mourning commemorating the Circassian genocide. This study is to evaluate Circassian exile memorial park opened at 5 June 2021 in Fındık neighborhood of Göksun District of Kahramanmaraş Province in Turkiye. The assessment was made with theoretical and methodological principles, in particular, to make memorial park evaluations. It is considered as a sequence of activities that make up the concept design. In study field, constructed monument and memorial park, which take shape according to Circassian exile, dynamics of the historical process in which they were realized. It is typically reflecting the identity of event and time in a symbolic language, are the visual expression to visitors of the knowledge and memory between the past and the future. The site found to be guided to interest focal points and areas by successions of used design materials, completed by color and shapes of elements.

Keywords

• Circassian exile
• open space
• memorial park
• Göksun
• SWOT analysis.

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