Ottoman Propaganda and Turkish Identity : Literature in Turkey During

269 Pages·2007·1.288 MB·English

by  Erol Köroglu

OTTOMAN PROPAGANDA AND
TURKISH IDENTITY

OTTOMAN
PROPAGANDA AND
TURKISH IDENTITY
LITERATURE IN TURKEY DURING
WORLD WAR I
EROL KÖRO⁄LU
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To the Unknown Victims of Wars,
Just or Unjust, Total or Local, Past or Present

CONTENTS
Note on Transliteration and Dates ix
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
1 Material Conditions of War Propaganda and Their
Want in the Ottoman Empire 1
2 The Ideological Foundations of Ottoman War
Propaganda 24
3 Patriotic Agitation in the Cultural Sphere: From the
Balkan War to the First World War 46
4 Ottoman War Propaganda and Culture, 1914-1918 72
5 The War and Poetry 111
6 The War and Prose 147
Conclusion 185
Notes 198
Bibliography 226
Index 238

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
AND DATES
In the transliteration of texts from the Arabic script to the Latin script,
I mainly used the current Turkish usage, with a major exception for
the Arabic letters «, Ë and È in the originals, which are represented
by the letters â, û and î. Meanwhile, I did not change the spellings
and punctuations of the passages I took from literary sources in order
not to interfere with their specific textual structures. I used the forms
of personal names according to the current usage, i.e. not Mehmed
but Mehmet; however, I did not alter them if they were in Latin script.
On the other hand, I wrote the family names of prominent histor-
ical and literary personalities in brackets throughout the text since
the usage of family names was institutionalized in Turkey after the
Family Names Law of 21 June 1934.
For the dates of books and articles before the acceptance of
Christian calendar, I first gave the date in the Rumi calendar (an
adapted version of the Gregorian calendar) and then its equivalent
in the Christian calendar. However, note that the publication years
of books in the Rumi calendar cannot be exactly represented by
Christian years. Therefore, I gave the Christian date in brackets after
the Rumidate in the case of books, while I first providedthe Rumi
date and then the Christian one after a slash in the case of articles
published in newspapers or periodicals.