Özet:

İzmir National Library which was founded by private enterprise in İzmir with the enlightment brought by Ilnd Constitutional Era of 1908, served the intellectual and cultural life of İzmir and its environ starting from 1912. Being located in a central position in İzmir, it necessarily witnessed all events that took place in the city. The Library fulfilled a task of being a stronghold and a meeting place that assembled and hold together the Turkish population of İzmir during the armistice and occupation periods. Eventhough occasionally deviated from the purpose of its foundation, İzmir National Library, which had to struggle for its survival against the pressure of the Greeks during the Occupation because of the suspicion resulting from its intimacy with the Committee of Union and Progress and its "National" name, succeded in being one of the most important cultural institutions of the City. İzmir Natioanl Library was one of the places in which the first resistance memorandum of the Independence War was distributed. It virtually became a center not only for the field of education but also for the social and cultural activities and even for stage performences despite all the nonabilities. Although it tried to stand aloof of politics its Unionist identity was never forgotten both in armistice and occupation periods