Volkan (newspaper)

Volkan (Ottoman Turkish: Volcano) was a short-lived daily newspaper published in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. The paper was in circulation between 1908 and 1909 and was one of the Islamist publications which were launched in the Second Constitutional period.[1]

Volkan
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Derviş Vahdeti
Editor-in-chiefDerviş Vahdeti
Founded11 December 1908
Political alignmentPan-Islamist
LanguageOttoman Turkish
Ceased publication20 April 1909
HeadquartersConstantinople

History and profile

Volkan was started by Derviş Vahdeti in Constantinople on 11 December 1908.[2][3] Vahdeti asked for financial support from Sultan Abdulhamit before launching the paper.[4] However, this request was not accepted.[4]

The publisher of Volkan was Derviş Vahdeti.[5] He edited the daily until 20 April 1909 when he was arrested.[3] At the beginning the paper was supportive of the new constitution and relatively liberal.[2] However, following the establishment of the Mohammadan Union by Vahdeti on 5 March 1909 the paper became its organ and an ardent critic of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP).[6][7] The political program of the Union was featured in the paper on 3 March.[6]

Volkan published the articles by Said Nursî, future leader of the Nur movement.[8] The articles published in the paper began to appear in a militant style over time.[4] It presented a synthesis of mysticism and popular Islam and opposed to the secularism of the government.[9] It also criticized the influence of the minorities and foreign representatives in the Empire.[9] Vahdeti argued in Volkan that the CUP should obey the Islamic principles.[10][11] The paper also featured anti-Semitic materials written by Derviş Vahdeti and other contributors.[12] All these were in sharp contrast to the ideology of the CUP making the paper a device for the counterrevolution.[9] Volkan produced a total of 110 issues during its lifetime.[13]

Spin-offs

In the 1940s a magazine with same name was published in Istanbul which shared the political stance of the paper.[14]

References
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  4. David Farhi (October 1971). "The Şeriat as a Political Slogan: Or the 'Incident of the 31st Mart'". Middle Eastern Studies. 7 (3): 283. doi:10.1080/00263207108700182.
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  8. Şükran Vahide (2003). "Toward an Intellectual Biography of Said Nursi". In Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' (ed.). Islam at the Crossroads: On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7914-8691-7.
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  11. Kasuya Gen (2006). "The influence of al-Manar on Islamism in Turkey: the case of Mehmed Âkif". In Stephane A. Dudoignon; Komatsu Hisao; Kosugi Yasushi (eds.). Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World. London: Routledge. p. 72. doi:10.4324/9780203028315-10. ISBN 9780203028315.
  12. Marc David Baer (Fall 2013). "An Enemy Old and New: The Dönme, Anti-Semitism, and Conspiracy Theories in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 103 (4): 531. doi:10.1353/jqr.2013.0033.
  13. M. Ertuğrul Düzdağ. "Volkan". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021.
  14. Gavin D. Brockett (August 2009). "Provincial Newspapers as a Historical Source: Büyük Cihad and the Great Struggle for the Muslim Turkish Nation (1951-53)". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 41 (3): 443. doi:10.1017/S0020743809091545. JSTOR 40389256.
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