Modern Turkish Republic was founded in the face of immense demographic changes and loss of massive territories in the Balkan Wars and World War I. The abrupt transition from a multi- ethnic religious empire to a modern secular nation transformed not only the political, social and economic institutions of the Ottoman Empire, but also dramatically changed the fabric of everyday life in a newly emerged state for the sake of creating an imagined community. Turkish nationalism, in the eyes of the founding elites, served as a redemptive ideology, to heal the collective traumas of the territorial losses and human sufferings of the late Ottoman Empire. The replacement of the Istanbul with Ankara as a capital and remaking of Ankara as a new capital of the Modern Turkish Republic lies at the heart of the intention to efface the memory of last vestiges of the Ottoman past. Remaking the city involved the introduction of the new public spaces and different kinds of practices as well as dismantling the environments that sustain the memories of the past which was sought to be forgotten.. I argue that state sponsored dismantling in the former capital of Istanbul and introduction of the new spatial strategies in the new capital Ankara in the early republican period, exemplified the traumatic impact of the late Ottoman period on the minds of the elites in modern Turkish Republic. By examining those spatial strategies in Istanbul and Ankara in the early Republican period, my goal is to categorize the all those space controlling strategies employed in the new capital into a single narrative to trace the traumatic impacts of the last Ottoman period in eyes of the elites of the modern Turkish Republic. Within the scope of the research, politics of city making in Ankara during the early Republican period ( 1923-1945) through construction and dismantling of iconic buildings, monuments, landmarks, squares, schools and governments offices will be subject to inquiry. As far as the implications of the research is concerned, the findings will provide more nuanced account to elaborate the socio-spatial strategies as a reflection of the efforts to reconstruct the past by shaping the everyday life of the individuals during state formation processes and will allow to examine the impact of the traumatic memories of the late Ottoman period on the minds of the Turkish Republican elites.