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know-how information on house
building and criteria for artisans and
workmen choice. In January 1925,
Turkish part of the great exchange
was completed. This incoming
population was brought to Turkey
with the help of the government
or they came here on their own by
ship, train or other transportation
means with which the government
provided them and they were given
houses to reside. We do not clearly
know today whether these people
received satisfactory help regarding
health, education services or food
supply and there was much criticism
about it at that time.
All these problematic issues arising from the separation between the two
nations was doubled by the dilemmas, which took place among the Turkish
Republic citizens in the country. Regarding the acceptance of Latin alphabet in
1928, our lack of interest towards the pre-1928 history lies under the fact that
this document has not been studied so far. Despite the desire for separation
and the state of poverty, there was a great vivacity and mobility as well.
Since the end of the 1877-78 war, people of different nations from the countries
bordering the Ottoman State or other far countries have visited Turkey.
Considering the immigration process, the effects and the consequences of the
exchange period and the conflicts we need to solve, Turkey can be viewed in
similar situation to Greece. There are research papers and writings regarding
the reactions shown by Ottoman State since 1877. In my studies, I noticed that
the solutions and reactions here still continued.
It was intended to re-construct the villages consisting of 50-54 houses and
all the details of this process illuminate the fact that the condition of these
sample villages after a year were examined and as much study as possible
were done concerning the continuity of the situation. Looking at the details,
we see that despite the hardship resulted from the state of poverty and lack
of construction material, there emerged a sense of standardisation, which
was quite familiar to the style of
Ottoman architecture.
This shows that we can not see the
connections and the clues related
to the standardisation architecture,
which we mistakenly think that
it arrived to our country from the
West in 1960’s for the first time. In
other words, we are not aware of
our hens.
There are external help offers
from people who are involved in
foreign affairs and finances, who say that they have travelled and seen a lot
or financial inspectors. They provide information on Jewish settlements in Yafa
according to their own drawings. This information includes data on what kind
of houses there are, the balance set between the house and the production,
the relationship between the house and the neighbourhood, the method to
arrange all of these issues and the method of Jewish settlement system about
agricultural equipment supply.
Looking at all of these, we come across an early modernisation activity initiated
by the constitutional monarchy in those villages, houses and buildings. Ottoman
villages and figures, on the other hand, consist of a possession-centred, concrete
grid plan 1 and a sense of finance originating from a sense of reproduction. In
the publication titled “The History of Settlement”, the conversations between
the Ministry and the inspectors appointed in a related region is written clearly
in details. The report, which Arif Hikmet provided with counselling through his
writing, shows the population figures between 1914 – 1923 and that the Ministry
supervised him through different charts.
Therefore, we can see that population increased in cities such as Kayseri,
Adana, İzmir or Istanbul which are globally the centres of big regions. When we
take the density of homogenisation in the arrangement of new settlements, the
population was not very high in 1914, despite the new residents arriving to the
south east region, especially in Hakkari, Mardin, Siirt, Sivas. Therefore, we see
that in return to a certain number of people leaving a city approximately the
same number of people were settled there. But despite this homogenisation
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