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- Title
Le Moniteur Ottoman ya da Kamuoyunun Dönüm Noktası.
- Authors
GROC, Gérard
- Abstract
At the end of 1831, in Istanbul, two newspapers started their publishing life, one in Turkish and the other in French. They are the two faces of the same political awakening. The realization was that the success of a policy, in this case a will for reform, no longer depends on the decision-makers alone but the social participation that they know how to trigger. It appears public opinion is an actor who will soon be indispensable to adoption or failure of this will for reform. It is up to the newspaper to call out this new actor, convey the new ideas and win this new actor over to their cause. This awareness of a new concept, unheard of in the empire, is due to the war of liberation of Greece where one of the conditions of its victory lies in the campaign of denigration carried out in Europe against the Turkish barbarism, which led governments not necessarily hostile to Turkey to military intervention against Constantinople. A French publicist denounced the phenomenon alone for three years, at the head of his Smyrnian newspaper. Noticed by the sultan, he became the main figure in the creation of these publications of 1831 as new political tools.
- Publication
Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022, Issue 53, p139
- ISSN
1300-2864
- Publication type
Article