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By Erol Köroglu

ISBN-10: 1845114906

ISBN-13: 9781845114909

All through global conflict I the Entente Powers (France, Britain, Russia and later america) directed frequent efforts in the direction of the new release of propaganda as a weapon of conflict, with devastating influence. despite the fact that, within the underdeveloped and multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire, the Turkish intelligentsia couldn't produce sufficient propaganda to help the warfare attempt. because the conflict spread out, writers deserted their preliminary makes an attempt at propaganda and became in its place to the duty of defining a countrywide id. during this new reassessment of Turkish literature and propaganda in global struggle I, Erol Köroglu argues the Ottoman-Turkish intelligentsia used the stipulations created by way of the conflict to dispose of the deficiencies in nationwide tradition and construct a Turkish id, a undertaking inherited from the pre-war years.

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This sacrifice was in complete contrast to the laziness of the poet who could not even be bothered to write an epic on the heroism of this soldier. , was published a few months after this poem, in issue 130 of Türk Yurdu. This letter referred to the need for reading material felt by the soldiers on the front. The great majority of Turkish soldiers were illiterate but felt a great need for someone to read the newspapers for them. When there was an article written in a comprehensible way, they would read it many times, even if they had by then learned it by heart.

31 By the time the Ottoman government finally understood that by applying such strict censorship it was losing a very important outlet for frustrations, it was too late. Beginning in 1917, the authorities began to allow some articles critical of unjust profits. On 11 June 1918, military censorship was completely abolished. From that date, newspapers were free to publish whatever they felt like printing. Upon this belated relaxation of the rules, the attitude of the press became more critical but remained prudent at the same time.

Paradoxically, it would also give birth to the national identity of the Turkish community, which in the western imported medium of the press was described as the millet-i hâkime (dominant nation). From the 1860s, newspapers became a daily tradition, especially in Istanbul. This gave rise to the birth of an ‘audience’ for literary output, with the side effect that language became an ‘element defining the identity of a community’. 1 All the efforts made by the state to modernize Ottoman society basically were inspired by Western societies.

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