AVUSTURYALI GAZETECİ LEO LEDERER’İN GÖZÜNDEN BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI’NDA VARNA LİMANI’NIN ASKERÎ YAPISI
THE MILITARY STRUCTURE OF THE VARNA PORT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR AS REFLECTED BY THE AUSTRIAN JOURNALIST LEO LEDERER

Summary/Abstract: Germany's famous Berliner Tageblatt und Handels Zeitung newspaper intensively continued its news and articles in the First World War and after Bulgaria joined the war alongside Germany, it sent his reporter Leo Lederer to Varna and it included Lederer's observations on Varna on his pages. Bulgaria was involved in the war on September 6, 1915, when the Ottoman Empire and Germany were squeezed against Russia in the Black Sea and Varna port was also come under the control of Germany in this context. The fact that the Varna port came under the control of Germany also reduced the burden on the Ottoman navy and shipyard in Istanbul in the struggle against Russia in the Black Sea and and at the same time, it opened another front against Russia in the Black Sea. As a result of the work carried out by German officers coming from Berlin and Istanbul, the port of Varna was turned into a more fortified location and the Russian navy was prevented from fully dominating the North-West Black Sea. The aim of this study is to make a comprehensive assessment of the impact of the Varna port in the war by showing the equipment of the port of Varna, which had a strategically important presence during the First World War (1915-1916) from the perspective of journalist Leo Lederer.

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