Antalya Clock Tower

This guide to the Antalya Clock Tower follows a 1901 gift from Kaiser Wilhelm II to his Ottoman ally, mounted on a pentagonal bastion that had already stood for centuries as part of Rome's fortifications at ancient Attaleia. It traces the tower's long relay of builders, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman, and what Sultan Abdulhamid II's empire-wide tower-building campaign was meant to say to the world. Listen for how the clock faces still watch four directions over a much older stone.