Özet:

The press build communication bridges between the ruling and the ruled, as well as informing the public. Following the widespread of printing after Tanzimat the provincial printing press and newspapers fulfilled this task and gave the first examples of press history of Anatolia and some Middle Eastern countries. Provincial newspapers have vitalized the cultural climate and the number of them has continued to increase during the Republican period. The Aksaray Vilayet Newspaper was used for the adoption of the Republican ideology and the rooting of the new system from 1926 to 1933. In this study, 23 numbers of the newspaper were examined between October 1929 and December 1930 using historical research model in order to determine the role of newspaper in the social transformation process. It was observed that the newspaper underlined the achievements of the Republic, national education and national economic mobilization, alphabet reform, attempts of transition to multi-party democracy, women’s suffrage and the foreign media’s attitude toward revolution.

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