“A Hidden Hand” or “Arab Gangs”: The Turkish Press’s View of the Beginning of the 1936-1939 Revolt In Palestine

Gülsüm Polat

doi:10.34230/fiad.744955

Research Article

“A Hidden Hand” or “Arab Gangs”: The Turkish Press’s View of the Beginning of the 1936-1939 Revolt In Palestine

Year 2020, Issue: 7, 1 - 24, 30.06.2020

Gülsüm Polat

https://doi.org/10.34230/fiad.744955

Abstract

Protests, civil disobedience, cases of plunder and similar events that broke out in Palestine in April 1936 are regarded as a significant turning point for Palestinian history and Arab-Jewish relations. This study discusses how these Palestine-related events were covered and evaluated in the newspapers Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Tan, Ulus, Son Posta, and Yeni Asır. It aims to assess the place of Palestine-related events in the Turkish newspapers’ coverage of the incidents of that period, and to examine whether they questioned the recent history of the old imperial geography when interpreting the contemporary events there.

Keywords

Palestine , 1936-1939 Revolt , Turkish press , Jews , Turkey

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Primary Language	English
Journal Section	RESEARCH ARTICLES
Authors	Gülsüm Polat 0000-0003-0048-8467
Publication Date	June 30, 2020
Submission Date	May 29, 2020
Published in Issue	Year 2020 Issue: 7

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Chicago	Polat, Gülsüm. ““A Hidden Hand” or ‘Arab Gangs’: The Turkish Press’s View of the Beginning of the 1936-1939 Revolt In Palestine”. Filistin Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 7 (June 2020): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.34230/fiad.744955.

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