The Social And Economic Life of Cebel-i Bereket During The Initial Years of The Republic

The armed action phase of the Turkish revolution was completed with the Lausanne Peace Treaty, which enabled the Turkish State to take part in international communities. After that, the efforts to establish a new order and replace the old order, which was destroyed and broken, and to give order to the state and society in accordance with the demands of social life, started. The Government of the Parliament has initiated a wide-ranging study from the very first day in order to identify the problems experienced at various stages of social life and to determine the country's numerical data on issues such as public health, economy, population, education, geography and production. As a result of these selfless efforts initiated under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Welfare, a total of twenty reports which demonstrated the reality of the subjects about Turkey's social, cultural, economic and health between the years 1922-1938 were published. These reports published under the title of "Turkey's Sanitary and Social Geography" in the early years of the Republic contain extremely important economical, social, historical, geographical and administrative information about the province and the counties. One of the reports prepared in this context and published in 1925 belongs to the province of Cebel-i Bereket. In this study, the social, cultural and economic conditions of Cebel-i Bereket transferred to the Republic period were evaluated within the framework of the said report and the developments that the city made during the Republican period were analyzed. In this context, it was determined that the city, which was identified with cotton and grain production in the Ottoman period, entered a period of great increase in agricultural product diversity and an intense industrialization period. Considering the scarcity of written sources containing healthy information about the state of Cebel-i Bereket, which reflects the economic leap phenomenon in a striking manner, it is thought that this work, which contains authentic information at first hand, will contribute to the existing literature and local history researchers.

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Ministry of Health and Social Aid, Dr. Refik Saydam, Dr. Riza Nur, Cebel-i Bereket, Cukurova.