Republic and Development Panel Held at ETÜ
Early Republican-era economic policies and the development of the Turkish sugar industry were discussed at a panel held at Erzurum Technical University.
The "Republic and Development" panel was held at Erzurum Technical University on the occasion of the 103rd anniversary of the Republic and the 100th anniversary of the Turkish sugar industry.
The panel, organized in cooperation with the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and the Department of History of the Faculty of Letters at Erzurum Technical University (ETU) at the Prof. Dr. Muammer Yaylalı Conference Hall, was moderated by Prof. Dr. Serap Bedir Kara. Prof. Dr. Firdes Temizgüney, a faculty member in the Department of History at the Faculty of Letters of Atatürk University, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rahman Aydın, a faculty member in the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of ETU, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmed Gökhan Polatoğlu, a faculty member in the Department of History at the Faculty of Letters of ETU, took part as speakers at the event.
During the panel, while the place and importance of the economic policies implemented in the early Republican era in Turkey's development process were evaluated, the general development of the Turkish sugar industry and the historical and social dimensions of the establishment of the Erzurum Sugar Factory were discussed. Following the program, the participants visited the Erzurum Sugar Factory, which started operating in 1956, and examined the sugar production stages.
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