SUMMARY The World War One-The Dardanelles War in The Turkish Press
The aim of this thesis is to fill the space-even if partİy-in its area and facilitate the re-
searchers whom need knowledge about this subject.
The thesis mainly consists of the news and comments of The Newspapers İkdam and Tanin during The Dardaneiles War. But as a pre-knowledge, a section which contains the reasons, progress and the results of The Dardanclles War is included into The Intro-
ductton.
During the progress of the thesis, firstly, the interested issues of the newspapers are searched thoroughiy and recorded all the news about the War. Afterwards, some books which are written of this subject are used to compile the knowledges in The Section of
Intoduction.
There has been reached some important resulis at the end of the research. Although these are comprehensively explained in The Section of Introduction, if it is necessary to indicate in short, The Dardanelles War has taken place broadiy in both Turkish and the foreign press. The press” of the both sides have given the news and the commenis in the direction of their national interests. The courage, heroism and ihe success of the Turk-
ish soldiers are appreciated by the friend - enemy goverments and the press”.
In addition, 1£8 useful to indicate that, when The War progressed, The English Press ac- cused their own government and army to be as much the responsible of the failure as The Turkish army?s heroism. The same press has ficrcely criticized the policies of its
own government and the tactics of its own army.
As aresult of these, the honor of Turkey and its arrıy has risen up against other states.
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