The Presidents Perspective on Landscape: Sample of The First President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey

Abstract

 21st Century has turned out to be an era in which people started to question the reasons for environmental matters and the quality of their
living areas. A significant number of researchers have so far shed light on the interactions between human and environment, ecologic
systems, environmental matters, outcomes of distorted urbanization, relationship between economy and ecology by considering the social,
economic and ecologic aspects of the topics. Great leaders of the past, who really owned multi dimensional points of view for the matters in
their own time and the future, revealed their fondness of green areas to their people open-heartedly by giving great emphasis on green areas
which are the most important elements of an ecosystem. Among such great leaders, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk has a distinctive place .
He succeeded in reflecting all his love of nature, which was shaped in his heart from his early childhood to the first years of Turkish
Republic, on landscape in terms of planning, design, repair, management and construction. In the present study, Atatürk’s green foot steps
are tracked by using various examples from his life and referring to his green love.