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Capital city as a political center and haven of state usually embraces all political, cultural, national, historical, economic, administrative, technical and communicative elements. A capital city, with respect to its political, economic and cultural performances, in fact, performs as a symbol of efficiency and capacity of existing potentials of state. In political geography, if territory, government and nation are considered as three basic elements of a state, undoubtedly, its capital city too enjoys a center of administration as well as center of gravity of its stimulus power. Selection of Ankara as capital city of Republic of Turkey was also with the view that Istanbul lacked essential efficiency for survival and management of modern Turkey in domestic political geography as well as global geopolitical system. Worthy of mentioning that numerous effective factors could be behind dislocating capital cities. Hence, the main aim of the present paper, namely transferring of Turkish capital city to Ankara, is to identify factors effective in dislocation process as a whole.