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Tercüman-ı Ahvâl
''Tercüman-ı Ahvâl'' (Ottoman Turkish: ''Interpreter of Events'') was an Ottoman newspaper which existed between 1860 and 1866 in Istanbul. It is the first privately owned publication in the Empire and is known for its founder, Agah Efendi. It is also the first newspaper started and published by a Turk in the country. History and profile ''Tercüman-ı Ahvâl'' was established by Agah Efendi in 1860, and its first issue appeared on 22 October that year. Ibrahim Şinasi helped him to launch the paper. He also served as its editor-in-chief and argued in the first editorial that featuring only news was not enough. Şinasi left the paper in 1862 to start his own paper called ''Tasvîr-i Efkâr''. ''Tercüman-ı Ahvâl'' came out three days per week, but later it appeared five times per week. From the 740th issue the paper published daily except for Fridays. In addition to national news, it featured news translated from ''The Times'', '' La Patrie'', and ''Levant Herald''. It cover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agah Efendi
Çapanzade or Çapanoğlu Agah Efendi (March 31, 1832 – January 2, 1886) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish people, Turkish Civil service, civil servant, writer and newspaper editor who, along with his colleague İbrahim Şinasi, published ''Tercüman-ı Ahvâl'' ("Interpreter of Events"), the first private newspaper by Turkish people, Turkish journalists, and introduced postage stamps to the Ottoman Empire. Biography Agah Efendi was born in Yozgat and his father's name was Çapanzade Ömer Hulûsi Efendi. He was educated in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul, Constantinople, in the . He is also known as being a member of the Young Ottomans, a reformist secret society that enabled the first introduction of a constitutional monarchy, constitutional system to the Empire, resulting in the short-lived First Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire), First Constitutional Era. See also * History of Middle Eastern newspapers References External links *Ottoman Empire / Turkey. The “ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Vefik Pasha
Ahmed Vefik Pasha () (3 July 1823 2 April 1891) was an Ottoman statesman, diplomat, scholar, playwright, and translator during the Tanzimat and First Constitutional Era periods. He was commissioned with top-rank governmental duties, including presiding over the first Ottoman Parliament in 1877. He also served as Prime Minister for two brief periods. He also established the first Ottoman theatre and initiated the first Western style theatre plays in Bursa and translated Molière's major works. His portrait was depicted on the Turkish postcard stamp dated 1966. Biography Ahmed Vefik Pasha was born of Greek extraction, his ancestors having previously converted to Islam, like many other Greek Muslims particularly from Crete (Cretan Turks) and Southern Macedonia in what is now northwestern Republic of Greece (see Vallahades). He started his education in 1831 in Constantinople and later went to Paris with his family, where he graduated from Saint Louis College. In 1844 Ahmed Vefik w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish-language Newspapers
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraq, and Syria. Turkish is the 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with the Latin script-based Turkish alphabet. Some distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language are vowel harmony and extens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publications Disestablished In 1866
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Newspapers Established In 1860
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Published In Istanbul
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Newspapers Published In The Ottoman Empire
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1866 Disestablishments In The Ottoman Empire
Events January * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The ''Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. February * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 – T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
