Bölgesel Kurtuluştan Millî Mücadele’ye Edirne’nin Sesi: Trakya Paşaeli Gazetesi
Edirne's Voice from Regional Liberation to the National Struggle: Trakya Pasaeli Newspaper

Summary/Abstract: The newspaper Trakya Pasaeli was first launched on December 2, 1918. It was the official publication of the Trakya Pasaeli Müdafaa-i Hukuk Cemiyeti, and was one of the first periodicals of the so-called Armistice & National Struggle Press period. This period, alongside the military and political events that took place thereafter directly affected newspaper’s publication policy. They also influenced what it focused on, theme wise. Moreover, Trakya Paşaeli offers us detailed insight into people’s ideas about regional liberation as well as what they did in the name of the [Turkish] National Struggle. It also gives us striking data about the institutional history of a private provincial newspaper. On the other hand, as it was the official organ of the Trakya Pasaeli Müdafaa-i Hukuk Cemiyeti, it therefore contained information about the history of Thracian society that one cannot find in other sources. Thus, it sheds light on the developments that took place between the end of 1918 and the beginning of 1920, both from a local and national perspective.

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