''Le Journal d'Orient'' (French: ''The Gazette of the East'') was a long-term weekly newspaper that existed between 1918 and 1971 with a two-year interruption first in the Ottoman Empire and then in Turkey.

History and profile

''Le Journal d'Orient'' was established by

Albert Karasu Albert Karasu or Carasso (1885–1982) was a Jewish-Turkish journalist born in Ottoman Salonica. Biography He studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies and went on to found the French-language Istanbul newspaper '' Le J ...

in 1918 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. He was a Jewish journalist from Thessaloniki. Karasu also edited the paper which came out weekly in Istanbul. It ceased publication in 1924, but was restarted in 1926. ''Le Journal d'Orient'' permanently folded in 1971. Major contributors of the paper included Angele Loreley, Willy Sperco, Lea Zolotarevsky, Marsel Shalom, Moshe Benbasat (Benbasan) and Aaron Zonana. The paper had a Zionist political stance at the initial period, but it later faded. Instead, ''Le Journal d'Orient'' had a cultural Levantine approach. Following the

liberation of İzmir The Turkish Capture of Smyrna, or the Liberation of İzmir ( tr, İzmir'in Kurtuluşu) marked the end of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War, and the culmination of the Turkish War of Independence. On 9 September ...

from the Greek invasion in September 1922 and the

Treaty of Lausanne The Treaty of Lausanne (french: Traité de Lausanne) was a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–23 and signed in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. The treaty officially settled the conflic ...

on 24 July 1923, the paper began to support Mustafa Kemal's movement which would establish the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923. As of 1923 the paper sold nearly 4,000 copies. In 2018 a book was published about the newspaper in relation to the social life of

minorities in Turkey Minorities in Turkey form a substantial part of the country's population, representing an estimated 26% to 31% of the population. Historically, in the Ottoman Empire, Islam was the official and dominant religion, with Muslims having different d ...

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