First Inspectorate-General (Turkey)

The First Inspectorate-General was created on the 1 January 1928[4] and based on the Law 1164, passed in June 1927.[5] The headquarters of the Inspectorate General was to be in the city of Diyarbakır, [6] İbrahim Talî Öngören was appointed the Inspector-General.[4] He had extended authority over military, juridical and civilian matters.[1] An infrastructure program including railways, schools, and a land reform was elaborated for the region.[6] As a result of the land reform, the possessions of the Kurdish elite were divided and a British traveler noted in 1930 that there was no wealthy Kurd left in the region.[6] The assimilation policy was perceived such a success,[7] that in an attempt to curb the Ararat rebellion,[8] the province of Ağrı (then named Karaköse province) was included in the Inspectorate General.[7] Hilmi Ergeneli succeeded Öngören as Inspector-General and served until 1935.[9]Abidin Özmen succeeded Ergeneli, and attended the conference of all the Governors of the Inspectorates-General with the Minister of the Interior Şükrü Kaya in December 1936 in Ankara.[10] Özmen served until 1943.[11] The idea of governing the region within Inspectorate-Generals was left behind in 1948, but the First Inspectorate-Generals legal status was only abolished in 1952,[1] during the Government of the Democrat Party.[12]