Abstract

ABSTRACT When Westem Thrace Turks became minority, they became more invol- ved in press and publication. Journalism, which started soon after the Lausan- ne, was mainly based in Gümülcine and İskeçe. During the İnter-war period about twenty newspapers were issued in Western Thrace, and these newspapers did not last long in part due to various reasons as well as being opponent to each other. Their policy can be summa- rised as follows: a) the supporters of Turkey andTurkish nationalism, revolutions. b) the opponents against-Turkish nationalism, revolutions and the republic. We deal with "înkılâp" newspapers, which was issued between 21 March 1930 and 7 May 1931 and, which supported Turkish revolutions sincerely. This newspaper issued önce a week with four pages by Hıfzı Abdurrahman and Osman Nuri, who were the leading people of the minority in İskeçe de- fined itself as a "political, social, economy and patriotic Turkish newspa- per". The newspaper adopting the idea of "to learn the new alphabet is the first task of a civilized Türk " wanted the new alphabet to be accepted by the Turkish minority. For this reason, both the new and old letters were propor- tİonally placed together in the nevvspaper. In this study we aim to discover how İnkılâp Newspaper, ali issues of which were available to us, tried the develop Western Thrace Turkish society socially, economically and culturally. We also aim to analyse how this news- paper fought against the anti-regime activities of those who fled from Turkey.