THE FIRST PRIVATE TURKISH NEWSPAPER DURING OTTOMAN PERIOD IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA GÜLŞEN-İ SARAY

It can ben said that during the xix. century in bosnia and herzegovina, which is one of theborderland provinces of the ottoman empire with many different ethnic and religious structures,the serious problems of the government felt a lot more. the effects of austro-hungarians oncatholics and the effects of russians on orthodoxies have made the region much more precise.the general situation in bosnia and herzegovina during the establishment of printing, theestablishment of state printing in bosnia, the effects of foreigners to influence the ottomansubjects through the media, the need for the newspaper, the tasks undertaken by newspaper andthe first newspapers are the contents of our study. at the beginning of this study, we firstlysearched the studies regarding this subject in turkey and in bosnia and herzegovina. secondly,we have talked with the academics who are working on this subject or made some studies aboutthe ottoman period journalism at faculty of philosophy department of turcology at sarajevouniversity. we took some translation and guidence services from the bosnian students of mastersand doctoral who had their part of education in turkey and knows turkish very well. lastly weanalyzed the available gulsen-i saray newspapers in the library of gazi husrev bey. althoughthere are many local studies about the turkish newspapers in bosnia and herzegovina during theottoman period, it is not possible to say that the number of the studies in turkey is sufficient. inthis study, information about the content of the first private turkish newspaper ‘gülşen-i saray’will be given and also the first muslim journalist of the bosnia and herzegovina mehmed şakirkurtçehayiç who is the publisher of the first newspaper will be informed. in the conclusion part,the importance of studies made about the local newspapers will be mentioned.