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Atatürk in the Press: November 10 Archive
Falih Rıfkı, “Son Günü” [Atatürk’s Last Day], Yedigün, November 29, 1938, pp. 10-11
Salt Research, Atatürk in the Press: November 10 Archive
Courtesy of Ahmet Ege Demiroğlu
Salt Research, Atatürk in the Press: November 10 Archive
Courtesy of Ahmet Ege Demiroğlu
Comprising around 1,000 documents related to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s death, Atatürk in the Press: November 10 Archive is now accessible at archives.saltresearch.org.
Recently added to the City, Society, and Economy Archive at Salt Research, the collection includes press clippings from 1938 published in newspapers such as Tan, Kurun, Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Ulus, Anadolu, Yeni Sabah, and Son Posta, as well as the magazines Yarım Ay, Ev, Karikatür, Yücel, and Türk Tiyatrosu and local newspapers Ayvaz, Manisa, and Kırklarili. These materials are complemented by photographs documenting Atatürk’s funeral procession from Istanbul to Ankara.
The documents and photographs digitized from the collections of Ömer Bilgin and Sabri Sayarı constitute the basis for the publication Türk Basınında Atatürk: Kasım 1938 [Atatürk in the Turkish Press: November 1938] (NMC Television Broadcasting, Advertising, and Production, 2023) by Nuri Çolakoğlu and Aytaç Demirci, marking the 100th anniversary of the Republic and the 85th anniversary of Atatürk’s passing.
Salt Research City, Society, and Economy Archive
The digital archives at Salt Research contain over 2 million documents, spanning the fields of “Art,” “Architecture and Design,” and “City, Society, and Economy.” The collections within the City, Society, and Economy Archive comprise documents on education, social life, and the built environment in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Türkiye, along with individual stories from the 19th century to the present.
Recently added to the City, Society, and Economy Archive at Salt Research, the collection includes press clippings from 1938 published in newspapers such as Tan, Kurun, Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Ulus, Anadolu, Yeni Sabah, and Son Posta, as well as the magazines Yarım Ay, Ev, Karikatür, Yücel, and Türk Tiyatrosu and local newspapers Ayvaz, Manisa, and Kırklarili. These materials are complemented by photographs documenting Atatürk’s funeral procession from Istanbul to Ankara.
The documents and photographs digitized from the collections of Ömer Bilgin and Sabri Sayarı constitute the basis for the publication Türk Basınında Atatürk: Kasım 1938 [Atatürk in the Turkish Press: November 1938] (NMC Television Broadcasting, Advertising, and Production, 2023) by Nuri Çolakoğlu and Aytaç Demirci, marking the 100th anniversary of the Republic and the 85th anniversary of Atatürk’s passing.
Salt Research City, Society, and Economy Archive
The digital archives at Salt Research contain over 2 million documents, spanning the fields of “Art,” “Architecture and Design,” and “City, Society, and Economy.” The collections within the City, Society, and Economy Archive comprise documents on education, social life, and the built environment in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Türkiye, along with individual stories from the 19th century to the present.
