Özet:

It is seen that the issue of effects of the Letter Revolution on our cultural life, libraries and printing-publishing life has been previously discussed in many articles and thesis studies and in different sources. However, we rarely encounter independent works reflecting the atmosphere of the day on textbooks, which are the most effective tool of education today, that is, on "the Issue of School Books" as it was used more in that period. In addition, approaches to this problem of the newspapers, which were communication tools of that period, were not used much in the studies, although they were first-hand sources. As the studying hypothesis, it is based on the opinion that ‘‘The Issue of School Books" has attracted the attention of the press for many years after both regime change and the Letter Revolution during the transition from Ottoman Empire to the republic, and has been the subject of news and discussion constantly’’. Aim of the study is to test accuracy of the stated hypothesis by revealing how did the newspapers of the period, printing houses, educators and parents of students react to the issue of publishing and distribution of school books, starting with proclamation of the Republic, and how did they express this. Considered to be important resources for proving hypothesis of the study; The accessible publications of Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Milliyet, Son Posta, Tan, Ulus, Vakit, Yeni Sabah and Zaman newspapers between 1929 and 1939 were scanned and the content analysis of the news, interviews, articles and statements on the subject was made.

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