Tabip Tuğgeneral Mustafa Nahit Tunaşar (1890-1970); Askerî ve Sivil Yaşamı, Siyasi ve Kültürel Faaliyetleri

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the professional and social life of General Mustafa Nahit Tunasar. While he was the student of the medical faculty, he participated The National Struggle with the Balkan Wars and First World War. He could not specialize in the field of medicine, despite the lack of legal legislation. He studied to inform the public about the basic ideology of the Republic of Turkey and Ataturk’s principles and revolutions. As a member of the Turkish Hearths, Tunasar who was draws attention with the struggle to keep the Turkish Hearths, engaged in politics during his retirement on behalf of the opposition parties. As a good head of the family, a successful physician and an exemplary Turkish intellectual, he died on 24 November 1970. This study mainly is based on his personal archive records and interviews with his daughter-Aysel Ceyhun.