CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Yilmaz, Ayce Feride |
|---|---|
| Title | The Ottoman Balkan Gazette as an Agent of Empire within the Bulgarian Nation State,1910-1911 |
| Summary | This thesis is based on an analysis of the Plovdiv (Bulgaria) based Ottoman language newspaper Balkan between 1910 and 1911, when confrontations between the successor Balkan states over Ottoman Macedonia radicalized. This thesis conceptualizes Balkan as a mouthpiece of the Revolutionary Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) which assumed major political power in the Ottoman Empire after 1908. The findings underscore this medium`s position as a propaganda organ in a sovereign nation state. Its charged publication material aimed to undermine Bulgarian state`s moral claims over Macedonia and buttress legitimization for the political power of the Young Turk governance in the eyes of Muslims in Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Balkan`s coverage involving these goals was consumed by a vast Muslim readership both in Bulgaria, Macedonia and other provinces of the Ottoman Empire.Yet this project was not an uncontested one given the existence of deep cleavages within the Muslims in Bulgaria. |
| Supervisor | Esmer Tolga, Philliou Christine |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/yilmaz_ayce.pdf |
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