The creation of the third Inspectorate General (a Turkish regional governorship) qas based on the Law 1164 in which the Erzincan province was included.
On August 25, 1935, the Third Inspectorate-General (Ucuncu Umumi Mufettislik) including Agr, Kars, Artvin, Rize, Trabzon, Gumushane, Erzincan and Erzurum provinces, was established with the center in Erzurum. Inspectorates-General or General Inspectorates (Turkish: Umumi Mufettislikler) was a regional governorship whose authorities prevailed over civilian, military and judicial institutions under their domain of the direct command of Mustafa Kemal in order to establishing authoritarian rule and to consolidate the authority in the process of Turkification of religious and ethnic minorities. The Turkish Grand National Assembly got the law numbered 1164 and dated June 25, 1927, passed. 
