II. Meşrutiyet’ten Cumhuriyet’e Elli Yıllık Hatıralarım

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 71 - 72, 30.09.2017

Ali Çakır

Abstract

Süleyman Tevfik'in 2011 yılında basılan "II. Meşrutiyet'ten Cumhuriyet'e Elli Yıllık Hatıralarım" isimli kitabı incelenmiştir.

Keywords

gazeteci, II. Abdulhamit Dönemi, Süleyman Tevfik

Fifty Years' Remembrance from the Second Constitutionalism to the Republic

Abstract

This work, published in the memoir genre, was written by Suleyman Tevfik. The author was born in 1861 and he was a journalist. He kept on doing his job from the era of Abdulhamid II until the early years of the Republic. He told what his experiences were and the final years of Ottoman Empire and the early years of the republic while he was doing his job from his own point of view. The book contains nine chapters except the biography of Suleyman Tevfik, written by the editors of the book, and the prologue. The first chapter includes the era of Ottoman Sultans, Abdulaziz and Murat V. The second chapter begins with the era of Abdulhamid II. The period, in which Suleyman Tevfik was exiled and then was pardoned and came to Istanbul, was mentioned briefly. Following this, Tevfik kept on describing what the press experienced in the era of Abdulhamid II by giving examples based on his own experiences. In these pages, he mentioned the mechanism of censorship and talked about the details of his being in custody because of an article he wrote. He wrote about some family matters at the end of this chapter. He gave a wide coverage to war reporting that was a new field of journalism in the third chapter of his memoir. In 1897, he was there in the frontline himself in the war between Ottoman Empire and Greece, the Greco-Turkish War. He shared his anecdotes about how to receive news from the battlefield and how to deliver them to Istanbul. Also, he wrote about the professional conversations with journalists from other countries. Having mentioned the part of the Greco-Turkish War, he continued to talk about journalistic activities in the era of Abdulhamid II. In the next chapter, Suleyman Tevfik started to show himself as a very important personality. For instance, a couple of days before the declaration of the Second Constitutional Era in July 24, 1908, he says he had met Abdulhamit II and in this meeting Tevfik said to him that the Second Constitution must be established.

Keywords

journalist, the era of Abdulhamit II, Süleyman Tevfik

References

• Süleyman Tevfik (2011). II. Meşrutiyet’ten Cumhuriyet’e Elli Yıllık Hatıralarım. Tahsin Yıldırım & Şaban Özdemir (haz.). DBY Yayınları, İstanbul.