Abstract:

He worked in the state service as an administrator in the last years of the Ottoman Empire and as a manager in the national struggle and worked as a branch manager, district governor, inspector of the property in various regions of the country. He served as a governor in provinces like Silifke, Elazığ, Muş, İçel, and Kastamonu. He made significant and lasting services in the areas where he served as an idealist manager devoted to Republic values and ideology. The most spectacular of these services were the permanent artworks that were in the areas of zoning and public works in the cities. Most of these works have served the public for many years. He made great efforts to create the city plan in a modern way in the provinces that he was the governorate. In addition to considering the needs, he founded republic squares in order to show the symbols of modernism and regime in the places, where he was the governor, beside the square he founded community center and in front of it the Atatürk Statue, and around them he composed school, hospital, and sports facilities present the power of the new regime. In a sense, he was intended to create a modern city plan, shaped by the ideology of a single-party republic. In this study, the life of Tevfik Secret Gür, who had served as a governor in the one party period, his services in the cities he had served as a governor, especially in Elazığ, will be examined.

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