Türk Haritacılığı tarihi ve Cumhuriyetle yaşıt: Talat Cin

Abstract

The need of visualisation of what has been explored or seen has risen the notion of cartography in ancient times. Nomad life of Turks made them progress in cartography since nomadism requires lot of travelling and experiencing. By coming to the Ottoman Empire area, it can be seen that cartography has developed parallel with voyages. Turkish Republic has raised many cartography engineers and these engineers later improved the cartography science by creating projects and making agreements. In this paper, life and works of Talat Cin who is one of the first cartography engineers raised in Turkey is analysed with information about progress of Turkish Cartography. The need of visualisation of what has been explored or seen has risen the notion of cartography in ancient times. Nomad life of Turks made them progress in cartography since nomadism requires lot of travelling and experiencing. By coming to the Ottoman Empire area, it can be seen that cartography has developed parallel with voyages. Turkish Republic has raised many cartography engineers and these engineers later improved the cartography science by creating projects and making agreements. In this paper, life and works of Talat Cin who is one of the first cartography engineers raised in Turkey is analysed with information about progress of Turkish Cartography.