Doctor Ömer Vasfi̇ Aybar and Türk Heki̇mi̇, the Medical Journal He Published in Ankara

Abstract

<p class="ql-align-justify">Türk Hekimi, published with Arabic letters in Ankara, is one of the medical journals that have not been studied so far. Its publication began on March 1, 1336 (1920) and ended, most probably, the same year. Only two issues are extant in Turkey, and these are kept at the Department of Medical History and Ethics, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University. The present article, while introducing these two issues, will present a bio-bibliography of doctor Ömer Vasfi Aybar, the owner of the journal. The article will analyze the journal within the conditions of the period, taking into consideration Ömer Vasfi Aybar's political identity and relations. Its appendix includes an article by Dr. Aybar that narrates his surgical activities and memoirs at the Battle of Gallipoli; a list of his works; his letter of 1919 written to Dr. Abdullah Cevdet, and the case report of the surgery he performed on his mother.&nbsp;