The kick-off meeting of the project “Creating the National Struggle Route from İnönü to Sakarya and Monitoring Its Effects” was held at Anadolu University.
Anadolu University Faculty of Tourism Lecturer Prof. Dr. The kick-off meeting of the project "Creating the National Struggle Route from İnönü to Sakarya and Monitoring its Effects", which was accepted within the scope of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) 3005-Innovative Solutions in Social and Human Sciences Research Support Program, led by Semra Günay, Anadolu University Rector prof. Dr. Fuat Erdal was held in the Rectorate Hall 2009. Together with the project team, Özgür Ersoy from the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB), Secretary General of the Young Businessmen Association of Turkey (TÜGİAD), Atty. Dr. Ali Önal, Hakan Öncü from Ankara Chamber of Guides (ANRO) and Tourist Guides Association (TUREB) and Güliz Ünal from Bursa Eskişehir Bilecik Development Agency (BEBKA), ETİ Social Sciences High School Manager Serpil Kılıç Cebeci and Borsa İstanbul Science High School Manager İlker Nebi Özgür also attended the opening meeting.
In the process leading to the liberation and establishment of the State of Turkey, in the provinces of First İnönü, Second İnönü, Kütahya-Eskişehir, Sakarya Square and Ankara (Polatlı), Eskişehir, Bilecik, Kütahya and Afyon provinces where the Great Offensive battles took place, historical and literary In the project, it is aimed to plan a tour enriched with text-based information and to determine the effects of this tour on the knowledge levels and moods of the participants; Anadolu University Faculty of Letters Lecturer Prof. Dr. Şaduman Halıcı, Faculty Member of the Faculty of Education Prof. Dr. Erdogan Kaya, Faculty of Tourism Faculty Members Dr. Faculty Member Aysel Kaya and Res. See. Seda Sökmen researcher, Social Sciences Institute Tourism Management Doctoral Program students Aslı Bendenay Çapa and Hüseyin Harmancı, and Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems Science Specialist Burhan Can will contribute as scholarship holders.
In the project, which aims to draw attention to the potential of battlefield tourism in different geographies in our country and to bring an interdisciplinary perspective to the studies on battlefield tourism, the development of a route in the light of historical documents, the creation of an enriched narrative and the determination of the effect of these narratives on the knowledge levels of the students participating in the tour about the national struggle period. It is planned to contribute to rural and regional development.
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