Gazete, Kitap, Tiyatro Karşisinda İmajini Korumaya Çalişan Sultan Ve Maiyeti: Sultan Ii. Abdülhamid Ve Ahmet Nermi
Newspaper, Books , Theater for the Protection of Employees Against the Image, the Sultan and his entourage: Sultan Abdu lhamid II and Ahmet Nermi

Summary/Abstract: Sultan Abdülhamid II, in order to reverse the image which humiliated himself and his country in the Western public opinion, went into the struggle for the activity of correcting image beginning from 1890s. He strove to prove that Ottoman country was a modern country and her people were civilized. Moreover, he resorted to censor the journals, plays and books which were the sources of the nasty Ottoman image; or to prohibit the introduction of those kind of publications to the country. We are going to investigate in this study why Sultan was interested in the travel books and why he prohibited some of them. This article consists of firstly the Sultan who was trying to correct his image and secondly, Ahmet Nermi, who was in charge of the affair of correction, and his translations.

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