The Reform of The Eastern Anatolia From The Pen of Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1913 – 1914) Cover Image

Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın’ın Kaleminden Şarki Anadolu Islahatı (1913 – 1914)
The Reform of The Eastern Anatolia From The Pen of Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1913 – 1914)

Author(s): Erdem Karaca
Subject(s): History
Published by: Gazi Akademik Bakış
Keywords: Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın; Foreign Policy; Armenian Question; Reform.

Summary/Abstract: Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın has been elected as the Istanbul parliamentarian in 1908 from the “İttihat ve Terakki” party. He has attracted attentions also with his articles that he wrote in the “Tanin” newspaper. He has been employed in the“Düyun-u Umumiye” administration (1911-1922) and he has been exiled by the British to Malta. He has been electedin 1939 as a parliamentarian from the CHP party and he dealt with journalism and politics until he died (1957). He wrote articles on Eastern Anatolian Reform that came into the agenda after the Balkan War; he emphasized the necessity of thisand apart from this, he has compared this notion with the Balkan reformation. He has criticized the Western countries that tried to give direction to the matter and that were the interveners, where Russia and England were at the forefronts. Yalçın, who was also against the approaches of the Armenians who were causing invitation to external intervention on continuous basis, has exhibited care in supporting the decisive approaches of the Ottoman Government.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 165-175
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish