The Propaganda Activities of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War: The Case of Harp Mecmuas？

The War Journal (Harp Mecmuas？), which first issue was published on November 1915, was one of the main propaganda tools of the Ottoman Empire during the World War I. The War Journal, considered as one of the most successful publication of the Empire in terms of its visual propaganda, was closed in June 1918, after publishing 27 issues. This study concentrates especially on the analysis of the Journal’s presentation of the news about the battles on the Hedjaz, Sinai and Palestine frontlines, where the Ottoman Empire lost the most of its territories. The analysis of those news shows, that instead of showing its enemy as a ‘monster’, the dominant discourse chosen by the Journal is mainly about the heroism and the virtues of the Ottoman soldiers