Atatürk's Culinary Heritage
Atatürk Cuisine Week, Decision No. 40, the 2024 and 2025 commemorative editions, and the source-critical research on which they rest.
Decision No. 40 and what it records
The week rests on a single dated institutional decision: Decision No. 40, File 0001, 16 May 2024, adopted unanimously by the World Turkish Cuisine Academy and the Turkish Cuisine Movement.
The decision text records only the adoption and the announcement of 19–25 May as Atatürk Cuisine Week within the institutional framework of TMDH and WTCA. It does not contain a detailed seven-day programme. Any thematic day-by-day framework published later is a separate institutional implementation proposal and is not part of the decision.
The decision records the institutional adoption of the observance within WTCA/TMDH and defines the basis of the Academy’s own published record.
The project site
The week has its own bilingual project site, which brings together the decisions, the menus, the source types, the corrections and the limitations of the work.
The 2024 and 2025 editions
Two editions of the week have been held. The menus prepared for them are modern commemorative menus: they were composed for the commemoration and are not a historical Çankaya menu, a reconstructed period bill of fare, or a list of personal favourites attributed to Atatürk.
Source status
What each document is, and what it is not
Documents are cited here with their status, so that a reader is not left to infer it.
Decision No. 40 (TR / EN)
File 0001, 16 May 2024, unanimous. Records the adoption and announcement of 19–25 May as Atatürk Cuisine Week within the WTCA/TMDH institutional framework.
Book Report D18 (TR / EN)
No. 1071-1453-26-30-2022-D18, 1 July 2022, 46 items. A WTCA appraisal of a published book, page-referenced to it. Not an independent verification of the archival documents used by that book, and not a substitute for the primary source.
ataturkcuisine.com
Atatürk Cuisine is a bilingual digital public-history project developed by WTCA and TMDH to present the week’s decisions, menus, sources, corrections and research record.