İzmir Economic Congress ( tr, İzmir İktisat Kongresi) was held in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

between 17 February - 4 March 1923, shortly after the end of the

Turkish War of Independence The Turkish War of Independence "War of Liberation", also known figuratively as ''İstiklâl Harbi'' "Independence War" or ''Millî Mücadele'' "National Struggle" (19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923) was a series of military campaigns waged by th ...

and during the interval between the two conferences that led to the

Lausanne Treaty The Treaty of Lausanne (french: Traité de Lausanne) was a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–23 and signed in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. The treaty officially settled the confl ...

the same year. The conference was held in order to emphasize the importance of Turkish economic development, as the country had been shattered by years of war. Early Turkish economic policy was articulated at this congress. The newborn republic was to have a mixed economy—as advised by

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 Surname Law (Turkey), until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish Mareşal (Turkey), field marshal, Turkish National Movement, re ...

. Mustafa Kemal's conjunctural words have long been quoted by the statist economists in Turkey in an effort to justify the state's role in economy. A second Congress under the same name and with stressed references to the first was held in 1981 after the

1980 Turkish coup d'état The 1980 Turkish coup d'état ( tr, 12 Eylül Darbesi), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third coup d'état in the history of the Republic of Turkey, the previous having been the 1960 coup and the 1971 coup ...

, and a third (named Economic Congress of Turkey) was organized by Turkey's

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(''T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Planlama Teşkilatı'') in 2004, both times also in İzmir, although these last two are far from having the historic significance of the first. An exhibition of various commercial products organized simultaneously to the Congress, in İzmir's Hamparsumyan House, used as storehouse for the

Ottoman Bank The Ottoman Bank ( tr, Osmanlı Bankası), known from 1863 to 1925 as the Imperial Ottoman Bank (french: Banque Impériale Ottomane, ota, بانق عثمانی شاهانه) and correspondingly referred to by its French acronym BIO, was a bank ...

at the time, is considered to be the precursor of today's

İzmir International Fair The İzmir International Fair ( tr, İzmir Enternasyonal Fuarı) is the oldest tradeshow in Turkey, considered the cradle of Turkey's fairs and expositions industry, and is also notable for hosting a series of simultaneous festival activities. Th ...

References

* Lewis, Bernard. "

The Emergence of Modern Turkey ''The Emergence of Modern Turkey'' is a 1961 book written by historian Bernard Lewis, an expert in the history of Middle East and Islam. The book covers the history of modern Turkey, from the decline and collapse of the Ottoman Empire up to the p ...

". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. * Zurcher, Eric. "Turkey: A Modern History". London: I.B. Tauris, 1993. {{DEFAULTSORT:Izmir Economic Congress Economic Congress Economic Congress 1923 in Turkey Economic history of Turkey 1923 conferences

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