Özet:

On October 30, 1918, the Ottoman State became open to external intervention, and the territory of the country began to be occupied. The Paris Conference, which was held with the participation of representatives of the opposition states, was called for the establishment of the state of Pontus in Eastern Anatolia and in Eastern Black Sea with the proposals presented in the name of the Armenians, then the Romans. While these attempts were ongoing outside, the massacres against Turks and the armed gangs established by the Armenians and the Romans were ongoing inside, and the Turks in the region were forced to migrate outside the region. In the days when the governments of Istanbul were ignorant of these developments, the people of the region who were exposed to the demands of the Armenian and Romanian were seeking solutions against the possible developments and attempting to take measures. One of these places was the accident of the Trabzon province in that time. Osman Ağa, who was invited to Giresun to fight against the Rum demands and efforts by the victims of the accident, was the mayor and the people of the accident decided to establish a community for the defense of the rights of the Turks. For this purpose, in the first days of February of 1919, the Giresun Defence Country Committee was established and telegraphs were drawn to all the provinces, accidents and districts from Inebolu to Hopa, calling for the organization of this people under one roof. With the contribution of this call, the entrance branch of the Trabzon Conservation-i Law-i Millions Society, established on February 12, 1919, Osman Ağa continued to contribute to the National Struggle as both the mayor and the chairman of the community. Osman Ağa, who decided to issue a newspaper that would make the word of this struggle given in the field on the closure of the Münteşir Black Sea and Light newspapers, put this decision into force on January 17, 1920 and published the first number of the Gedikkaya newspaper. From the Gedikkaya newspaper and the Erzurum Congress, the aim was to share the activities of Osman Ağa’s National Struggle, which was followed by Mustafa Kemal Pasha, with the Interessants. Officially possessed and the chief executive of Cemşidzâde Ahmed Nuri Mr., the chief executive of Bekir Sükuti (Kulaksızoğlu) Mr. made the newspaper and the chief executive was taken over by Osman Ağa. In the first number, the British Prime Minister Lloyd George was confronted with the danger of the opening of the Telegraph on the protest of this decision by Mustafa Kemal Pasha on January 11, 1920 to the Conservation-i Law-i Millions communities against the declaration that the Turkish government should be located in an area in Anatolia and the establishment of an international status in Istanbul and the Gulf of Gujarat and the closure of the Gedikkaya newspaper by the Inner Nezareti. There has not been a comprehensive evaluation until now, because the full collection of the Gedikkaya newspaper, which was published in the most critical days of the National Struggle, has not been found. One of the three important works on this subject is the book of Omer Sami Coşar’s Atatürk’s Guard Topal Osman, the second is the statement of Suleyman Beyoğlu’s “Osman Ağa’s Gedikkaya Gazetesi and Mustafa Kemal Pasha”, and the third is the book of Osman Fikret Topallı’s “Giresun in the History of Law and Antiquity”. In this article, the physical qualities and content characteristics of the newspaper have been discussed and evaluated through the five nuances of the Gedikkaya newspaper, which is located next to Osman Ağa in the establishment and all its works and also in the archive of Osman Fikret Topallı, which is the generality of the community. In addition, the full text of the five-number Latin is also added to the statement.