Kawar’dan Bolis’e: Azadamard Gazetesindeki Yansımalar

Yalcin, Orhun (2025): Kawar’dan Bolis’e: Azadamard Gazetesindeki Yansımalar. In: Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, No. 60: pp. 47-80

Abstract

This article introduces the concept of “Socialist Ottomnism” to explain the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s (Tashaktsutyun) transition from radical to reformist socialism. Through an analysis of the post-1908 newspaper Azamard, it demonstrates that the structural inequalities, dispossesion, and security crises rooted in the Tanzimat era persisted into the Second Constitutional Period. Centered on the defense of peasant rights, Azadamard articulated a class-based discourse of solidarity among Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish peasants who shared the same exploitative conditions. Thus, the paper argues that Azadamard not only exposed the unrealized promises of Tanzimat reforms but also embodied the practical manifestation of Socialist Ottomanism in the Ottoman public sphere.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: Azadamard; Tashnaktsutyun; Socialist Ottomanism; Tanzimat; Armenian Peasants; Kawar
• Faculties: History and Art History > Department of History > Neuere und Neueste Geschichte; History and Art History > Department of History > Methods of Historiography and Historiographical Studies of Media; Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science; 800 Literature > 890 Other literatures; 900 History and geography > 900 Geschichte; 900 History and geography > 940 History of Europe; 900 History and geography > 990 History of other areas
• ISSN: 2149-4568
• Language: Turkish