Özet:

The geographical proximity to the areas with oil resources has kept the possibility of wealthy oil beds in Turkey constantly strong. The oil search work began with the announcement of the Republic, and the perception of these activities within the framework of economic policies in an enterprise framework occurred with the establishment of the MTA. This process has seen an increase in oil search activities and oil production. Due to capital insufficiency and technical insufficiency, the state was not much interested in the oil issue between 1923 and 1933. After these dates, an intervening character has begun to pay attention to the topic of the management of oil resources with a heavy economic policy. It is intended to take advantage of its underground wealth in economic development. With this new perception of the use of natural resources, oil search activities have begun to be planned on a more scientific ground, taking into the scope of economic policies. The acceleration of technical and scientific research has led to the implementation of methods suitable for international technology. The desire for the newly established organizations and the activities of these organizations to gain a knowledge quality has ensured the corporationalization of oil policies, this corporation has strengthened the stable and continuous nature of policies. This process, parallel to the nationalization policies, has evolved along with the political transformation that began in the 1950s in a new corporate process. In this study, the process that oil search activities are included in the practices of economic policy and the acquisition of a scientific qualification, has been tried to reveal with historical evidence toward this process. In terms of mining and oil search activities, the work included between 1936-1958 years in the MTA Mining Inspection and Search Institute, which was issued by the MTA as a basic institution, was studied, TBMM Zabıt Cerideleri and the Republic Archive were scanned.

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