Grand Vizier Talat Pasha in Turkish Press (3 January 1917 - 10 November 1918)

Talat Pasha was between 3 February 1917 - 8 October 1918 at the capital. During his short period of duty, there had been developments that changed the course of the First World War and even ended it. Shortly after he became Grand Vizier, the Bolshevik Revolution started in Russia and Russia withdrew from the war. Although the withdrawal of Russia from the war seemed like to be a victory of the allies, the desire to have Baku petroleum and the disagreements over the Caucasus started a rough competition between The Ottoman Empire and Germany. This competition almost started a war between the two allies. Pasha visitted Berlin to appease this environment. On the other hand, Talat Pasha was also shown as the number one reason responsible for the deportation. In the end, after signing the Armistice of Mondros, he and other Unionist leaders had to flee abroad. The aim of this paper is to follow the changing profiles in the Turkish press according to political developments in the last years of the war when the Unionist hold and lost power, through Talat Pasha. Also how the period of Talat Pasha working as Grand Vizier and fleeing the country is shown in the press; Pasha's statements while he was Grand Vizier, his travels, his Brest-Litovsk meetings, his escape with a German boat to a foreign country and his life being ended when he assassination in Berlin. His biography is presented with the help of important newspapers of that time such as Ikdam, Sabah, Tanin, Zaman, Tercuman-i Hakikat, Tasvir-i Efkar, Vakit and Yenigun.