Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi Efendi’nin Gazeteciliği Özelinde İttihat ve Terakki Fırkası (21 Nisan 1910-21 Eylül 1911)
Committee of Union and Progress Through the Penmanship of Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi Effendi: Hikmet (April 21 1910 - September 21 1911)

Summary/Abstract: Ahmed Hilmi from Plovdiv (aka Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi Effendi), one of the leading thinkers of Constitutional Era and the owner of and the editor of the Hikmet newspaper, published various articles in his newspaper. Hikmet was a cultural-political and a philosophical newspaper published during the Reformation Period of the Ottoman Empire. This article aims to evaluate Hikmet mainly through Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi Effendi’s constructive articles on the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), between 21 April 1910 and 21 September 1911, written in a period of dense strife. He also provided valuable points for discussions on moral responsibilities and system critique ranging from democracy, governance and opposition to corruption. Moreover, in this article, issues pertaining to Balkan Wars, which he brought forward right after the newspaper’s reappearance following its closure on 25 October 1912, are taken into deliberate consideration in order to be able to understand his perception of politics of his day.

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