Abstract:

In the context of political communication, propaganda techniques and tools have been used in every period of history, and with the developments in communication tools, it has taken an active role in political life from the 19th century to the present. Political actors engage in propaganda activities in order to come to power and seize absolute power. When Turkish political life is examined, the phenomenon of systematic and conscious political propaganda emerges in 1908. The Committee of Union and Progress, which has an important place in Turkish political life, played an important role in the context of propaganda. In this study, from the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy in 1908 to the years when the Committee of Union and Progress came to power, examinations were carried out on the propaganda techniques and tools used in the process until the Committee abolished itself on November 1, 1918. This study was prepared with the qualitative research method and the propaganda products used in the research were obtained by secondary source reviewing. Newspapers and magazines, postcards, cartoons, posters, medals, regulations, images of political parties, marches, literary works and movies selected from the examples of political propaganda produced in this period were examined and evaluations were made about the propaganda in the political period under the rule of the Union and Progress Committee.

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