The Nation’s Library

The Nation’s Library is the final building to complete the Presidential Complex. It is the biggest unit in the Complex and has ties with other social structures such as the Nation’s Mosque, Congress Center and Exhibition Hall, underlining its significance within the Complex. The Complex maintains its integrity by bringing together official and social venues and creating unity with not only the architectural and aesthetic harmony of the buildings but also the landscape, gardens, courtyards and squares.

The Library covers an area 125.000 square meters and has a seating capacity of approximately 5,500. There are 5,048,493 printed resources, 2,168,302 of them books in 134 different languages and 2,948,290 periodicals of 25,017 printed magazines. It is Türkiye’s biggest library with 1,218,475 e-books, 7,901,681 electronic dissertations and over 300 million articles, reports etc. published in 112,153 e-magazines that can be accessed from 233 databases within 73 main databases. By putting the digitals of 567,000 notebooks, 103,350 books and 136 million documents in the Directorate of State Archives collection, which has been open since 2020, the Nation’s Library has become one of the distinguished libraries in the world.

There are 141,718,843 books, documents, notebooks, slides, maps and other publications in the Nation’s Library and the Directorate of State Archives.

The library offers seamless access to information thanks to the integrated book transport system used in Türkiye for the first time, its technological infrastructure, computers, touchscreens and internet connection. In addition to electronic library services, the Library gives its readers 7/24 access through mobile applications. The Library has 23 elevators, six of which are panoramic, to facilitate access.

Users can become members or renew their membership on the e-Devlet (e-government) system or in person at the information desks of the Library for a period of one year.

Although the Library the foundation of which was laid by President Recep Tayyip ERDOĞAN with ambitious targets, is currently Türkiye’s biggest library, it aims to become one of the top libraries in the world with its services and collection.

The Nation's Library