While promotion is used as an act of promoting a product or a place, it is also used as the promotionof a country. In the act of promotion, there are activities carried out with the aim of persuading, appeasing andattracting the target audience. The process that aims to attract the attention of the target audience and developan attitude that will activate it is actually a communication process. This communication process, with thedevelopment of advertising and communication technologies in the world, became associated with differentbranches of science in social sciences, and developed different methods and techniques, and this situation alsoexpanded the content of this concept. When we look at the history of Turkish graphic design, graphic designand promotion are two important elements in the introduction of the changes in education, industry, economyand social issues in the young Republic of Turkey after the declaration of the Republic, and in informing thetourism opportunities of the new state. The poster, which is the application area of graphic design, was used asa communication tool and became associated with the concept of promotion. These two concepts used incommunication are also important in terms of their role in the transformation of society. However, it is seenthat designers also played a role in this transformation In the light of all these evaluations, this study firstlyfocuses on the concept of promotion and its relationship with graphic design, to examine the graphic designworks in which these two phenomena came together in order to inform the society in Turkey between 1923and 1950, and then the 1923 and 1950 aims to deal with the tourism promotion posters of the Turkish period.