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Takvim-i vekayi ''Takvim-i Vekayi'' ( ota, تقویم وقایع, meaning "Calendar of Events") was the first fully Turkish language newspaper. It was launched in 1831 by Sultan Mahmud II, taking over from the '' Moniteur ottoman'' as the Official Gazette of the ...

'' was published a few months later, intended as a translation of the ''Moniteur'' into

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...

History

The ''Moniteur ottoman'' was the first Ottoman bulletin. It was apparently inspired by Muhammad Ali's ''

Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya ''Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya'' ( ar, الوقائع المصريّة / ALA-LC: ''al-Waqā’i‘ al-Miṣriyyah''; meaning "the Egyptian affairs"), was an Egyptian newspaper established in 1828 on the order of Muhammad Ali, originally called "''Veka ...

'', published in Egypt since 1828. After having been edited by former Consul for Denmark "''M. Franceschi''", and later on by "''Hassuna de Ghiez''", it was lastly edited by Lucien Rouet.''État présent de l'empire ottoman'', p. 169. However, facing the hostility of embassies,''Annuaire des deux mondes : histoire générale des divers États'', p. 814. it was closed in the 1840s. The title of the publication was used in ''Othōmanikos Mēnytōr'' ( el, Οθωμανικός Μηνύτωρ), the Greek edition of ''Takvim-i vekayi''.

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''Annuaire des deux mondes : histoire générale des divers États''.
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''État présent de l'empire ottoman''.''L'ami de la religion''.
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