The death penalty": representation of the Treaty of Sèvres in the İstanbul press in 1920

Abstract

This study seeks to dig a less studied area of Turkish press history and uncover how a crucial crisis period of the Ottoman Empire, just before the downfall, was discussed in the capital of Empire. Ottoman press history is mostly uncovered in Turkey. Ottoman Turkish is a lan­ guage barrier for most academics working in the field of media and communication studies. As a new initiative, this research is conducted by a communication scholar and an academic historian, expert in Ottoman history.

The study's research sample consists of four newspapers, pub­ lished in Istanbul during the year 1920. These four papers are Akşam, Alemdar, Peyam-ı Sabah and Vakit. Among several other titles of Istan­bul press in 1920, these papers were chosen according to their polit­ical stance. The text material gathered from the papers was analysed by using Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) of Critical Discourse Analysis.