A Social Responsibility Project and Country Guide Study: Antalya in The Turkey Guide Study of Hüseyin Orak

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Türkiye Kılavuzu, the Guide to Turkey, prepared in 1946 by the businessman Hüseyin Orak at the cost of all his wealth was not appreciated at the time, but was the first tourism and information guide planned to include all the provinces of Turkey. Antalya was one of the fourteen provinces that form the first volume of this study, which was planned as five volumes but which remained incomplete because the first volume failed to attract sufficient attention and sales following its publication, causing the bankruptcy of Hüseyin Orak due to the debts incurred during the course of its publication. This work records the economic, social, cultural, historical and touristic views of post-1945 Antalya, and has a great value in terms of city history and research. Within the framework of this article, information concerning this book, which was produced as a social responsibility project and which has never been academically reviewed or discussed, and especially concerning the section on Antalya, is related.

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Information , City research , City history , Turkey Guide , Social responsibility project

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities