Who founded the partisan newspapers?

Tell me who the founder is,

and I will tell you what kind of newspaper it is, I would say, but,

even their founders did not do this much harm to the Turkish Press.

Take the Vakit newspaper, for example,

The founder of the Vakit newspaper was a Christian named Ahmet Faris who later converted to Islam. Don't say I'm making it up. The famous journalist Ahmet Rasim says so in his article in the Vakit newspaper on October 3, 1920.

Later, the concession for the Vakit newspaper passed to Filip Efendi in 1875. Filip Efendi was also a non-Muslim and an Armenian. Do not misunderstand my mention of Armenian. Because their contributions to the Turkish Press are immense.

Yes, Filip Efendi came to Istanbul from Diyarbakır, first entered the Ceride-i Havadis newspaper, published by William Churchill, as a porter, then worked as a private servant for the writer Siret Efendi and became his carriage driver, and then he took up journalism and founded a newspaper called Muhbir. With this newspaper, he frequently collected money for Muslims suffering persecution in Crete. He covered the "pain of the Cretan Muslims." After collecting the money, God said to him, "go forth, my servant."

And he went forth.

Because being a partisan journalist and collecting money over the pain of the oppressed is a profitable business after all.

They are doing this today as well. Money comes from many places. From newspaper sales, advertising revenues, donations, the sultan, etc.

Yes, partisan newspapers also received allowances from the sultan. The source of the allowance they received from the sultan was the Hazine-i Hasa (Privy Purse), and the name of the allowance was "İhsan-ı Şahane" (Imperial Favor).

They were not only receiving money from the sultan, but also from foreigners and were being funded. They were even causing sedition and mischief in the country in return for this. I am not saying this, the famous journalist of the period Ahmet Emin Yalman says;

“Most of the newspapers were receiving foreign money and in return were causing sedition and confusion in the country, becoming tools for the ambitions of foreigners, whether knowingly or unknowingly. At that time, receiving money from a foreign state, a foreign bank, or a company was considered one of the normal sources of income for a newspaper, just like sales or advertisements. However, I have no doubt that some newspapers, which muddied the waters every day with various articles and could not possibly survive on legal income, were receiving foreign money.

Unfortunately, foreign money also played a major role in the Yeni Gazete, for which I was responsible.”

That is the founding story of the Vakit newspaper.

Not only the Vakit newspaper, but the Sabah newspaper was also founded in 1876 by a Greek named Papadopoulos. The newspaper was later purchased by the Kayseri-born Armenian Mihran Efendi. Mihran Efendi was an Armenian.

Mihran Efendi also ventured into the shipping business. First, he bought a freighter named Konya. Then he bought a small ship named Sabah and a ship named Kayseri. Sabah newspaper, ships, small ships, what a coincidence, these are the same organized businesses today.

Armenian Diran Kelekyan served as the editor-in-chief of the Sabah newspaper for a long time. Diran Kelekyan was also an Armenian and a fanatical Armenian nationalist. Diran also published a magazine called Cihan in 1888.

What things there were.

If you remember, there was once the Cihan News Agency. In the 1990s, in the 2000s. What slanders it used to cast at intellectuals, writers, and the Turkish soldier.

Oh, and there was also the Zaman newspaper.

While Istanbul was under occupation, an association was founded in Istanbul on December 4, 1918. Its name was; “Wilson Principles Association.” Wilson was the American President and at that time he was advocating for the shrinking and fragmentation of Turkey. If you ask in which newspaper's office this association was founded, let me tell you immediately; it was founded in the office of the Zaman newspaper. The Zaman newspaper you know. In its office in Nuruosmaniye, no less.

My, these names don't seem foreign to us at all.

Zaman is pro-American. Cihan is FETÖ-ist, this-ist, that-ist, and Vakit is as it always is. As for Sabah, it is the Sabah newspaper you know. Ships, small ships, and shipping businesses.

Yes, those who founded these newspapers were Armenian or Greek, but even they did not cause as much harm as the reactionary newspapers, as the bigoted journalists. For example, a Volkan newspaper writer Derviş Vahdeti, an Ali Kemal, or a Ferda newspaper writer Ali İlmi did not cause as much harm.

They did not drag the country into an abyss.

These newspapers have another characteristic. They immediately lynch those they do not like, don't they?

Calling them Armenian seed or Greek spawn. Well, what are they themselves?

I won't say it, but others will say it immediately, I swear,

So that those who live in glass houses do not throw stones at others.