A Public Education Project for the Introduction of Modern Agriculture at the Thessaloniki Industrial School

While the area of industry was developing in the world, the efforts for modernization in the fieldof industry and agriculture had also started in the Ottoman State. Since the beginning of the Tan zimat (Reorganization) Period, attempts were made to establish industrial and agricultural scho ols in order to train people to become the qualified staff needed for investments in the relatedfields. Accordingly, an Industrial School was established in Istanbul, additionally as a projectof Midhat Pasha, in the provinces industrial schools were established on the basis of ıslahhane(Workhouse or school for orphan). The Thessaloniki Industrial School was also established in 1874 by Mithat Pasha during hisshort-term Thessaloniki governorship. Thessaloniki Industrial School made significant contribu tions to the province by providing professional skills training to people and enhancing producti on. While industrial schools and agricultural schools which were to be established later on, pro vided training for people to meet the need of qualified personnel in the related fields, on theother hand planned and carried out awareness building activities for the Ottoman society in thefield of modern industry and agriculture. The present research, is an example case study which attempts to evaluate the public trainingactivities carried out and planned by the Thessaloniki Industrial School, mainly through Anato lian and Rumelia travels.