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Ankara
For Beach Surgery installations in Ankara, see Sırtlar Spirali — The Shoulder-Blade Spiral, The Shoulder-Blade Sanctuary—An Improvised Brutalist Meditation Igloo in Ankara (2023–2024).
Ankara—the planned capital of the Turkish Republic, founded 1923—has become a major node in the global Beach Surgery adaptation network, particularly in experimental theatre and brutalist-architecture performance. The city's 1960s–1980s mass-concrete urban form creates what fandom terms ontological incompleteness: buildings that recede from consciousness when unobserved; neighborhoods that loop back upon themselves.
Key works include Sırtlar Spirali (2018–2024), a monumental shoulder-blade-shaped brutalist spiral in reinforced concrete, and The Shoulder-Blade Sanctuary (2023–2024), an ephemeral igloo of carved concrete blocks for weekly group meditation on the three temptations and Leif's doubled-eye motif.
Turkish-language adaptations cluster in experimental theatre; the city hosts annual symposia on ontological incompleteness and sacred incompleteness. Ankara's status as "second city" mirrors the novel's desert interior as "second half"—often neglected, endlessly reinterpreted.