Abstract:

One of the kid’s journals written in ottoman Turkish was called Sadakat/Etfaland had been published in 1875 in İstanbul by Tahsin. This journal had been published weekly, especially for kids, had attracted much attention in that era. With the name “Sadakat” it had six copies, and then it had been renamed as “Etfal” meaning “children” and had seventeen more copies. The total number of the copies had been twenty three. Every copy consisted of four pages and at first it was sold for ten para/cents and then for twenty cents. Sadakat/Etfal had covered a wide area of subjects like mathematics, history, physics, religious information, geography and introducing animals. Also with the texts, some national and universal values were introduced to children and gave educational support to them. Having been the the first illustrated kid’s journal, it had been taken as a leading example for the future kids journals and magazines published soon after

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