Özet:

The Anadolu’da Yeni Gün (A New Day in Anatolia/AYG) newspaper attached a special importance to the Greece-Italy tension; trying to follow the issue day-by-day, delivering the news on the front page and publishing commentaries on the situation. Sometimes the paper presented the issue in an emotional manner by gloating over their misfortunes. The paper was not content only with its own commentaries and what its correspondents reported on the issue, it conveyed the news and commentaries published in prominent European newspapers. The AYG was interested in the Greece-Italy tension as if it was a tension between Greece and Turkey, that is, the paper acted as if Turkey was in the place of Italy. The reason of the tension was the killing of the Italian delegation in the commission for determining the borders of Albania by Greeks. The Mussolini government sent an ultimatum to Greece, and then they invaded the Corfu Island since the demands of Italy were not accepted. Upon this development, the AYG argued that the country that causes instabilities in the Balkans and hinders peace in the region is Greece. Besides, the newspaper maintained that Greece, who had been slapped by the Turk and was now being further stupefied by Italy, had no right to complain. On this issue, the AYG argued that a new world war and bloody tragedies would be experienced due to reasons such as there existed no option other than using force in the resolution of international problems, organizations like The League of Nations were not trustworthy, and the Versailles order included injustices in itself

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