PRESS AND POLITICS: TANİN IN THE BALKAN WARS

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2023-8-21

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Korkmaz, Ali

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This thesis discusses the place of the Balkan Wars in Tanin newspaper, which was generally associated with the Committee of Union and Progress. Based on the writings of Tanin’s leading authors, Hüseyin Cahit (Yalçın) and Babanzade İsmail Hakkı, from 31 January 1913 to 15 November 1913, this thesis argues that the Ottoman ruling elite, including the major journalists of Tanin, had the Late Ottoman Imperial Mindset, which was based on a defensive attitude and ad hoc administration (idare-i maslahatçılık) in the face of the European political and military threats to the Ottoman Empire. This thesis further discusses the elite perception of the place of the Ottoman Empire within the European hierarchy of power and demonstrates the Ottoman desire to keep the status quo in the Balkans rather than to challenge it militarily, politically, and intellectually. By doing so, this thesis challenges the well-circulated tropes about the place of the Balkan Wars in Ottoman/Turkish historiography that the Balkan Wars was a turning point which led the ruling elite to adopt a kind of nationalism, Turkish or Muslim, and the idea of a nation-state and that with the Balkan Wars, the Ottoman ruling elite started to believe in the inevitability of the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

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The Edirne Question, Late Ottoman Imperial Mindset, Ottoman Self-Perception, Balkan Wars, Tanin, Edirne Meselesi, Geç Osmanlı İmparatorluk Zihniyeti, Osmanlı Öz Algısı, Balkan Savaşları, Tanin

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105149

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis