Ahmet Cevdet Oran

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Ahmet Cevdet Oran
Born1862
Istanbul
Died27 May 1935 (aged 72–73)
Ankara
NationalityTurkish
OccupationJournalist
Years active1883–1935

Ahmet Cevdet Oran (mostly known as Ahmet Cevdet; 1862–27 May 1935) was a Turkish journalist who founded an influential newspaper, İkdam which was in circulation between 1894 and 1928.[1]

Biography[]

Ahmet Cevdet was born in Istanbul in 1862 and his father was , a well-known tobacco merchant.[2] He graduated from Kaptanpaşa Junior High School and then from Mülkiye, school of political sciences, and the law school.[2] He took lessons in Arabic, Persian and French and learned German and Greek.[2] He started his career as a translator at the newspaper Tercümân-ı Hakîkat when he was twenty-one.[2] Later he began to publish his first articles in this newspaper.[2] Meanwhile, he also published articles in Takvîm-i Vekāyi which he also served in the editorial board. Later, he worked as a civil servant at Ottoman Bank.[2] He returned to journalism and worked as the chief editor of different newspapers, including Sabah, and .[2] In 1894, he launched a newspaper entitled İkdam which he also edited.[3]

Ahmet Cevdet was in opposition to the Committee of Union and Progress, which took over the Ottoman administration after the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy. Therefore, he went into exile in Switzerland.[3] He supported the Turkish War of Independence and returned to the country following the establishment of Republic of Turkey. In addition to journalism, he was the publisher of many books such as Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname and Şemseddin Sâmi's Kamus-ı Türki.[2]

Ahmet Cevdet married and had three daughters one of whom was the mother of Turkish social scientist Şerif Mardin.[4] He died in Ankara on 27 May 1935.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Eminalp Malkoç (2008). "The 1927 Republican People's Party Congress and Mustafa Kemal's Great Speech From the Perspective of İkdam Newspaper". International Review of Turkology. 1 (2): 41. ISSN 1308-0105.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Ahmet Cevdet, İkdamcı" (in Turkish). Islam Encyclopedia. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b Ali Demirel (July 2018). "The Relations of İstanbul and Ankara within the Press of Turkish National Struggle (1918-1922)" (PhD). Middle East Technical University. p. 12. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Bir Münevver Portresi: Şerif Mardin". TR Dergisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 July 2021.
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