Özet:

The Izmit - Ankara highway was an important route as it provided a connection between Ankara and Istanbul and thus met the cereal need of Istanbul as well as being a passage way for the posts of Anatolia, especially Damascus, Kayseri, Baghdad and Izmir posts. The construction of this highway as a macadam road would facilitate transportation and thus would be influential in the increase of the welfare of the public. However, the government found it appropriate for the macadam road to be built by a building contractor, and the concession to build the Izmit - Ankara macadam road was given to a German engineer named Monsieur Human. The main problem started after this agreement and a lot of conflicts emerged between the Ottoman Government and Monsieur Human. In this study, after general information is given regarding the highway construction in the Ottoman Empire, an explanation will be made about the issue of giving the concession of the Izmit - Ankara macadam road construction to Monsieur Human and the construction process of the road.

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