Basiret

Basiret
Type	Daily newspaper
Founder(s)	Ali Efendi
Editor-in-chief	Ali Efendi
Founded	1869
Political alignment	Pan-Islamist; Pan-Turkism;
Language	Ottoman Turkish
Ceased publication	1879
Headquarters	Constantinople
Country	Ottoman Empire
	Media of the Ottoman Empire;

Basiret(Ottoman Turkish:Insightfulness) was an Ottoman daily newspaper which was published inConstantinoplein the period 1869–1879. It was one of the most read newspapers of that period and had apan-Islamistapproach.^[1]

History and profile[edit]

Basiretwas established by Ali Efendi, a journalist, in 1869,^[2]and the first issue appeared on 23 January 1870.^[3]He was also the publisher of the paper and began to be known as Basiretçi Ali Efendi due to the popularity of the paper.^[3]He was financed byGerman Chancellor Otto von Bismarckin getting printing machines to launch the paper.^[4]^[5]

Basiretsold 40,000 copies in the first year.^[2]Then it enjoyed both high levels of circulation and of influence among the Turks living in the Empire.^[6]The readers of the paper were mostly conservativeMuslims.^[3]Major contributors includedAli Suavi,Namık KemalandAhmet Mithat.^[6]Basiretcovered critical articles about the bureaucratic structure of the Ottoman Empire.^[3]

Basirethad links to theYoung Ottomans movement.^[7]During theFranco-Prussian Warin 1870-1871 the paper supported the Germans.^[5]^[8]It became a platform for the pan-Islamist andpan-Turkistfigures leaving its objective approach at the beginning of theRusso-Turkish Warin 1877.^[2]

References[edit]

^Kasuya Gen (2006)."The influence of al-Manar on Islamism in Turkey: The case of Mehmed Âkif"(PDF).In Stéphane A. Dudoignon; et al. (eds.).Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World. Transmission, Transformation and Communication.London; New York:Routledge.p. 80.ISBN 9780415549790.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 18 April 2021.
^^a ^b ^cOnur İşçi (2014). "Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat: Russian and Ottoman Newspapers in the War of 1877-78".Russian History.41(2): 190–191.doi:10.1163/18763316-04102005.
^^a ^b ^c ^dTuba Demirci; Selçuk Akşin Somel (September 2008). "Women's Bodies, Demography, and Public Health: Abortion Policy and Perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the Nineteenth Century".Journal of the History of Sexuality.17(3): 410.doi:10.1353/sex.0.0025.JSTOR 20542700.PMID 19263614.S2CID 7721368.
^M. Kayahan Özgül."Periyodiklerin İstanbul Kültürüne Etkileri"(in Turkish). İstanbul Tarihi. Archived fromthe originalon 5 November 2021.Retrieved28 November2021.
^^a ^bMustafa Gencer (2014)."The Congress of Berlin (1878) in Context of the Ottoman-German Relations"(PDF).Tarihin Peşinde.12:298. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 27 November 2020.
^^a ^bMurat Cankara (2015). "Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet".Middle Eastern Studies.51(1): 6.doi:10.1080/00263206.2014.951038.S2CID 144548203.
^Howard Eissenstat (2015)."Modernization, Imperial Nationalism, and the Ethnicization of Confessional Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire".In Stefan Berger; Alexei Miller (eds.).Nationalizing Empires.Budapest: Central European University Press. p. 448.ISBN 978-963-386-016-8.JSTOR 10.7829/j.ctt16rpr1r.
^Cevat Fehmi Baskut (February 1964). "Prominent Figures in Turkish Journalism".International Communication Gazette.10(1): 85.doi:10.1177/001654926401000113.S2CID 144350383.

[1] Kasuya Gen (2006)."The influence of al-Manar on Islamism in Turkey: The case of Mehmed Âkif"(PDF).In Stéphane A. Dudoignon; et al. (eds.).Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World. Transmission, Transformation and Communication.London; New York:Routledge.p. 80.ISBN 9780415549790.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 18 April 2021.

[onur-2] Onur İşçi (2014). "Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat: Russian and Ottoman Newspapers in the War of 1877-78".Russian History.41(2): 190–191.doi:10.1163/18763316-04102005.

[tdsas-3] Tuba Demirci; Selçuk Akşin Somel (September 2008). "Women's Bodies, Demography, and Public Health: Abortion Policy and Perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the Nineteenth Century".Journal of the History of Sexuality.17(3): 410.doi:10.1353/sex.0.0025.JSTOR 20542700.PMID 19263614.S2CID 7721368.

[4] M. Kayahan Özgül."Periyodiklerin İstanbul Kültürüne Etkileri"(in Turkish). İstanbul Tarihi. Archived fromthe originalon 5 November 2021.Retrieved28 November2021.

[musg-5] Mustafa Gencer (2014)."The Congress of Berlin (1878) in Context of the Ottoman-German Relations"(PDF).Tarihin Peşinde.12:298. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 27 November 2020.

[mcan-6] Murat Cankara (2015). "Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet".Middle Eastern Studies.51(1): 6.doi:10.1080/00263206.2014.951038.S2CID 144548203.

[7] Howard Eissenstat (2015)."Modernization, Imperial Nationalism, and the Ethnicization of Confessional Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire".In Stefan Berger; Alexei Miller (eds.).Nationalizing Empires.Budapest: Central European University Press. p. 448.ISBN 978-963-386-016-8.JSTOR 10.7829/j.ctt16rpr1r.

[8] Cevat Fehmi Baskut (February 1964). "Prominent Figures in Turkish Journalism".International Communication Gazette.10(1): 85.doi:10.1177/001654926401000113.S2CID 144350383.

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