TY - JOUR TT - Health Report of the Indebendence War (1920-1923) AU - Kopar, Metin PY - 2017 DA - December Y2 - 2017 DO - 10.20860/ijoses.341792 JF - Uluslararası Sosyal ve Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi JO - IJOSES PB - Selim Hilmi ÖZKAN WT - DergiPark SN - 2148-8673 SP - 210 EP - 228 VL - 4 IS - 8 KW - Sağlık KW - Savaş KW - İstiklal Harbi KW - Hastane N2 - The National IndependenceWar is the splendid fight which was given to save our country from intrudersand it is the first step to build a new political entity out of the Ottoman Empire which was de facto diedout. As a matter of fact, it is the birth process of the new Turkish State. TheWar of independence years are one of the latest turning points in Turkishhistory. This period is the time when Turkish people tried to save theirindependence from enemies and won the battle that they had to fought off. Turkishpeople fought against the Armenians in the East, French in the South and Greekswho are supported by the British in the West. They saved their country at thecost of losing their lives and they achieved to have their names written in thehistory with letters of gold. The war was won with great difficulties and allinstitutions did their share successfully. One of such institutions is thehealth organization. In the reconstruction process that started after theestablishment of the Great National Assembly of Turkey, significant changestook place in the field of health. New regulations were introduced to meet thehealth-care requirements of the soldiers. While the health organization wasreconstructed, the War of Independence broke out. Hence, the health-carerequirements of both the soldiers in the frontiers and the civilians in thehinterland were taken care of meticulously. Nevertheless, despite allprecautions, many soldiers lost their lives either because of the diseases orduring the battles. Health units of thetime recorded the list of the soldiers who died either as a result of diseasesor was killed during the war. They wanted to find out how many soldiers weremartyred in what are areas of the country. CR - BCA, 30.18.1.1 / 3.19.8 CR - İstiklal Harbi Sıhhi Raporu, (336, 337, 338 Mudanya Mütarekesine kadar) Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Müdafaa-i Milliye Sıhhiye Dairesi, 4. Şube, Ankara 28.12.1340 CR - TBMM Zabıt Ceridesi, Devre: 1, İçtima 1, C.1, S.241, Ankara 1959 UR - https://doi.org/10.20860/ijoses.341792 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/370993 ER -