Abstract:

Ahmet Cansunar was born in 1920 in Antep, Turkey into a family has six children. His father was a grocery. It was very hard time for people living in Antep, because the city was first invaded by the British and then French forces during the First World War. After a hard childhood time, he went to Istanbul for his university education. He got his medical education from Istanbul University. During his education, the tragic days of World War II had influenced his life. There was no money, even bread. As early as 1933 Atatürk invited numbers of prominent German Jewish professors to flee Nazi Germany and settle in Turkey. So he had taken lessons from these scholars while his medical education. After graduation medical faculty in 1946, he got his Internal Medicine residence from the Chirrahpaşa Medicine Faculty. He returned to Gaziantep in 1956 and began to study in his own city. He had a great compassion for his patients and serving the community. He always wanted to help people as a doctor and the money had never been the first goal for his life. Although he had his special office, he had spent lots of time as studying for community services. He had studied volunteering for 72 social services not getting money. While working full-time, Dr. Ahmet Cansunar had found time for other leisure in his life. He was an active member in every community. He had interested in literature and liked the traditional Turkish music. This study is a biography of Dr. Ahmet Cansunar. We hoped that, his life may inspire his new free colleagues and also memorialize his labories for Turkish Medicine