HÜSEYİN CAHİT YALÇIN’IN 1946 TARİHLİ RAPORU VE BASIN TARİHİMİZDEKİ ÖNEMİ
HÜSEYİN CAHİT YALÇIN’S REPORT DATED 1946 AND IT’S IMPORTANCE IN OUR PRESS HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: The press, which has a history of about 200 years in Turkey, gains an institutional structure in the post-Republic period. With the press law dated July 25, 1931, and numbered 1881, the first important step was taken for the press to gain an institutional status. Press-power relations in the Single Party government, which lasted from 1923 to 1950, were carried out through the existing law but changing world situation after World War II and Turkey's involvement in the Western block has required the efforts of the present government to take steps towards democratization. Within this framework, various arrangements were made in the press field, and the government of the period sent Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın to Europe for investigations. Press Association President Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın prepared a report by making various observations and inspections in England, France, Greece, Italy and Denmark. It is possible to state that the sending of Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın abroad and the report he prepared impacted the necessary arrangements made in the press field in 1946 and the democratization of our press regime.

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