Özet:

The organizational phase of the National Independence War, initiated by Mustafa Kemal Pasha and his friends in Anatolia, ended with the opening of the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara on 23 April 1920. The first Turkish Grand National Assembly, which lay the foundations of the new Turkish state, saw itself as a constituent parliament from the first day and implemented all the requirements of establishing a new state step by step. On May 3, 1920, the First Government was established under the name of the "First Executive Board of Appeals" in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, which adopted the Parliamentary Government System. The Ministry of Health and Social Assistance in this government initiated a study in 1921 to determine the population and economic potential of the country and to identify geographical, social and health problems on the spot. It was aimed to investigate the whole country under the same method and publish the results of the investigation with the orders of Dr. Refik Saydam and Dr. Riza Nur from the ministry of health. In this respect, between the years 1922 and 1938 a total of twenty-one works were published under the title of "Turkey's Sanitary and Social Geography". One of these works, which introduces the Anatolian provinces and sanjaks regarding health, social and geographical aspects of the political, social and economic conditions that the newly established Turkish State took over from the Ottoman period and contains first-hand authentic information is the Ottoman Province. This work, which was published in the Ottoman Turkish in 1927, contains the geographical, economic, social, historical and administrative preliminary information about the province. It is thought that this work, which has been translated into the new Turkish alphabet, will contribute to the understanding of the politics of the Republican governments during the foundation period and can be a basic resource for researchers working in this field.

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