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Since there is no port in Inebolu, which is located on the open sea coast, there have always been great difficulties in getting on the ferry for arriving and departing passengers or in transferring cargo and goods to the ferry. Most of the time, ferries passed by without taking any cargo or passengers; Since the people could not export their goods, the people living in the surrounding area suffered great damage. In the Kastamonu province yearbook dated 1871, the existence of a port in the İnebolu district is mentioned. However, it has been stated that a new port is needed since this port cannot fully meet the needs of the district. Seeing this situation, Sırrı Pasha, the Governor of Kastamonu at the time, wrote a letter to the Grand Vizierate, explained the problems and asked for a port to be built in İnebolu.

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This request of the Pasha was deemed appropriate and the construction of the İnebolu port started in the financial year 1298 (1882). Kastamonu governor Sırrı Pasha, in his letter to the Ministry of Public Works in 1882; “The fact that four ferries stop by the İnebolu pier a week indicates that İnebolu is one of the important trade centers of the Black Sea.” He defined İnebolu as an important trade center. Sırrı Pasha was closely interested in the construction of the port; He went to İnebolu and devoted most of his time to studies, literally imagining the work to be done.

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While leaving office, the Pasha waited for his successor, Abdurrahman Pasha, in İnebolu and after giving him information about the port construction, said, “I leave you an orphan child, one of our most important civil works should be the construction you see. "My biggest request is for your help in supplying it," he said. This port, which is the gateway of Anatolia to the Black Sea and from there to international maritime trade routes, has been strategically important throughout history. İnebolu Port played a strategically important role in the War of Independence. Some of those who wanted to go to Ankara to participate in the War of Independence were coming to İnebolu Pier by boats and passing to İnebolu from there. The entry point of war materials coming from Istanbul and the USSR to Anatolia was the İnebolu Pier. During the years of the War of Independence, Inebolu Port became the Ankara Government's window to the outside world. Most of the civil and military supplies supplied to the Ankara Government from Bulgaria, Romania and Russia entered through this port. Therefore, İnebolu Port; He played a major role in winning the War of Independence. The port was planned to be 400 meters long, turning from the place known as Rubble Burnu by the public, and the construction of the port started in 1882 and was only completed in 1997 due to wars, economic depressions and bureaucratic problems.

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