Is the gold pen gifted by Atatürk, with which Inönü signed the Treaty of Lausanne, missing?

Although some circles may wish to make it forgotten, the public celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey on October 29, 1923, with great enthusiasm. Hundreds of thousands of people rushed to Anıtkabir, flags were hung in tens of thousands of homes, and perhaps millions of people sent enthusiastic holiday greeting messages to one another in social media groups.

Unfortunately, the days marking the 100th anniversary did not pass quite as pleasantly for journalists; journalist Tolga Şardan was arrested due to a report he wrote, journalists Cengiz Erdinç and Dinçer Gökçe were detained, and new investigations were launched against many journalists. Fortunately, Erdinç and Gökçe were released first, and Şardan was released after a few days of detention. 

Last year, a legal amendment known as the 'Censorship Law' was enacted, and despite all objections from journalists and sensible legal experts, a vague article (217A) was added to the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), making the allegation of 'publicly disseminating misleading information' a crime. Now, that article has begun to be used against journalists every single day; the recent detentions and arrests were carried out based on this article.

The number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey is already at a record level, and it will now increase even further.

On Wednesday, November 8, the Constitutional Court will hear the merits of the annulment application filed against this article, known as the 'Censorship Law'.

Representatives of journalist organizations, including Press Council President Pınar Türenç, will hold a 'press vigil against censorship and arrests' in front of the Constitutional Court in Ankara on the day this article is discussed. 

Although courts no longer seem to heed the Constitutional Court, if an annulment decision is issued, surely no one will be able to say, 'Even if it is annulled, I will still apply the censorship article.'

Furthermore, we must remind that the press is indispensable to democracy. I believe the most significant reason for the difficulties Turkey is experiencing is the dysfunctionality of the press. If the media could perform its oversight duty properly and prevent arbitrary decisions from being made, we would not be experiencing today's economic crisis. 

Governments complain about the press a great deal, yet they never fail to blame the press by asking, 'Why didn't you oversee us?' The most striking example of this occurred in America; in the 1960s, President J.F. Kennedy first tried to block journalists' reports regarding the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, claiming, 'You are endangering the lives of our soldiers,' and then, after the invasion ended in a fiasco, he blamed them by asking, 'Why didn't you warn us enough?' We are accustomed to such opportunistic attitudes from politicians.

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As members of the High Board of the Press Council, we also visited Anıtkabir within the framework of the Republic's 100th anniversary to commemorate Atatürk and İsmet İnönü, the co-founder of the Republic. In the meantime, we had the chance to visit the Pink Mansion Museum in Ankara. The Pink Mansion was the house İsmet İnönü used during his lifetime; it now serves as a beautiful boutique museum, and everything on display is what İnönü used during his time.

I had read in the late journalist Ali Naci Karacan's book on Lausanne that the gold pen, which Atatürk gifted to İsmet İnönü and with which he signed the Treaty of Lausanne—the founding document of Turkey—was not in this museum. Indeed, back in 1923, İnönü had gifted this gold pen to Istanbul University. Only a photograph of this pen is displayed in the Pink Mansion Museum, with a note underneath stating that it was given to the university.

However, it is also claimed that the pen has been missing for years. This claim has been voiced in Ankara, and there are articles on the internet regarding the pen being missing. Author Sunay Akın has even published a YouTube video about it. 

It is hard to believe.

First of all, I would like to ask: is this pen missing? How could such a pen be stolen?

Or, if it is not missing, is it still located at the Faculty of Letters, as stated by the Istanbul University Information Platform on the internet?

And more importantly, if the pen is not missing