#smrgKİTABEVİ A Mouthpiece for The Ottoman Empire: The Balkan Gazette in Bulgaria -
To these ends, Balkan laid a wide surveillance mechanism over the Muslims in Bulgaria and Macedonia by employing readers' letters to report on Bulgarian infringements in their respective localities. It further sought to politically and socially educate Muslims to enable their opposition to the Bulgarian state and secure their loyalty to the Ottoman Empire and the CUP. Yet, this project did not remain uncontested as deep cleavages existed among Bulgaria's Muslims in terms of cooperation with Bulgarian political parties, conservative religious attitudes and support to the CUP regime. Overall, this research delineates the continuation of imperial networks in sovereign nation states and their usage as ideological tools.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 THEORETICAL CHAPTER
Theoretical Framework
Methodology
Readers' Letters and "Watchdog Journalism"
CHAPTER 2 BALKAN'S UNIQUE POSITION AS AN OTTOMAN IDEOLOGICAL MOUTHPIECE IN ANOTHER SOVEREIGN NATION
Biography of Ethem Ruhi and His Enterprise Balkan
The Discoursive Content of Balkan
Attacks against Malinov's Democratic Government and the Call for Muslim Political Mobilization
The Conundrum of Macedonia
CUP Propaganda
CHAPTER 3 BALKAN READERS' LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Reports of Ethnic Conflict in Bulgaria and Macedonia and Challenges to the Bulgarian State
Attempts for the Political Mobilization of Muslims via Education
A Fragmented Community
Muslim 'Partizans' as Internal Traitors
'Partizans' in Educational Commisions and Limits of Modern Education
Endowment Brokers' as 'Partizans'
High-Ranking Muslim Officials as "Partizans" and "Partizan Traitors in Elections"
Letters about the 'Ottoman Patriotism' and Albania
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX
To these ends, Balkan laid a wide surveillance mechanism over the Muslims in Bulgaria and Macedonia by employing readers' letters to report on Bulgarian infringements in their respective localities. It further sought to politically and socially educate Muslims to enable their opposition to the Bulgarian state and secure their loyalty to the Ottoman Empire and the CUP. Yet, this project did not remain uncontested as deep cleavages existed among Bulgaria's Muslims in terms of cooperation with Bulgarian political parties, conservative religious attitudes and support to the CUP regime. Overall, this research delineates the continuation of imperial networks in sovereign nation states and their usage as ideological tools.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 THEORETICAL CHAPTER
Theoretical Framework
Methodology
Readers' Letters and "Watchdog Journalism"
CHAPTER 2 BALKAN'S UNIQUE POSITION AS AN OTTOMAN IDEOLOGICAL MOUTHPIECE IN ANOTHER SOVEREIGN NATION
Biography of Ethem Ruhi and His Enterprise Balkan
The Discoursive Content of Balkan
Attacks against Malinov's Democratic Government and the Call for Muslim Political Mobilization
The Conundrum of Macedonia
CUP Propaganda
CHAPTER 3 BALKAN READERS' LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Reports of Ethnic Conflict in Bulgaria and Macedonia and Challenges to the Bulgarian State
Attempts for the Political Mobilization of Muslims via Education
A Fragmented Community
Muslim 'Partizans' as Internal Traitors
'Partizans' in Educational Commisions and Limits of Modern Education
Endowment Brokers' as 'Partizans'
High-Ranking Muslim Officials as "Partizans" and "Partizan Traitors in Elections"
Letters about the 'Ottoman Patriotism' and Albania
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX
