EKEN, Galip Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi - Edebiyat Fakültesi - Tarih Bölümü, Turkey

Some Information about the Opening of Erzincan Orphan School

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The necessity of answering the orphan children’s material and spiritual needs which had increased at important measure during the World War I become an important social problem in that era. Not ignoring that important problem did the Ottoman state opened many orphanages in many province and cities in Anatolia especially in Istanbul. One of them was established in Erzincan in 1918. Establishing an orphanage in which the girls and boys could have live together safely and which had 500 beds had started with a decision taken by the central government. In this article some of the ranks about supplying of the financial source of the orphanage and the efforts spent for the providing of the available built shed lights on.

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Asylum , Education , Erzincan , Orphan , Child

Journal Of Social Sciences, Eskişehir Osmangazi University

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