Vakit Gazetesi Muhabiri Talât Mümtaz (Yaman) Bey’in Kastamonu, Sinop ve Zonguldak Kıyı Şeridindeki Gezi İzlenimleri (1930)
Vakit Newspaper Correspondent Talat Mümtaz (Yaman) Bey's Travel Impressions in Kastamonu, Sinop and Zonguldak Coastline (1930)

Summary/Abstract: Talat Mümtaz Yaman was a versatile person who grew up in Kastamonu during the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Turkish Republic. While teaching in Kastamonu in 1930, he also worked for a local newspaper and was also the Kastamonu correspondent of the Vakit newspaper published in Istanbul. Yaman, who routinely sent news about Kastamonu to the Vakit newspaper, went on a study tour covering eight provinces in 1930. His impressions of this trip were published in the Vakit newspaper as 26 serials, titled "Travel Letters in Central Anatolia" for three months. In today's administrative division, Talat Mümtaz Bey conveyed a wide range of information from public services to economic activities, from social life to natural beauties in the letters regarding this trip, which included the provinces of Kastamonu, Sinop, Bartın, Zonguldak, Çankırı, Kırıkkale, Çorum, Yozgat, Kayseri and Sivas. Talat Mümtaz, who conveyed his impressions of the places he visited in detail, visited the coastline of Kastamonu, Sinop and Zonguldak in the first stage of his trip. In this context, the reporter passed through Küre to İnebolu by roadtrip and then visited the towns of Ayancık, Cide, and Bartın by seaway. The reporter, who also made contacts in the city center of Zonguldak, returned to İnebolu and continued his journey by road-trip, heading towards the inner parts of Anatolia Although the settlements on the coastline, which were the subject of the first 13 serials of Talat Mumtaz's trip, had similar geographical features, they were in completely different living conditions as of 1930, and the reporter conveyed these living conditions to his readers conspicuously. The information he gave was sometimes based on his contacts with the authorities and sometimes on conversations and observations.

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