International Courant
ANKARA
Based on April 6, 1920, amid the Turkish Conflict of Independence, on the directive of Republic of Türkiye’s ffounder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk to uphold nationwide unity and to ship “the voice of Anatolia to the world,” Anadolu is celebrating its 104th anniversary on Saturday.
Established 17 days earlier than the opening of the Turkish Grand Nationwide Meeting, or parliament, Anadolu holds a particular place within the historical past of the republic.
Yunus Nadi Abalioglu and Halide Edip Adivar, two intellectuals who set out for Türkiye’s Anatolian heartland to participate within the nationwide wrestle, mentioned the problem of creating a information company as quickly as they arrived in Ankara – the republic’s future capital – throughout a break in an extended prepare journey.
Recounting the occasion, Nadi stated that on March 31, 1920, on approach to Ankara from Istanbul, he stopped at a prepare station in Geyve, northeastern Türkiye. It was his fourth day of journey.
On April 1, 1920, the group reached Ankara. Nadi information that on the night of April 4 or 5, after dinner they raised the necessity for a information company at a gathering at Ziraat Mekteb, the army headquarters of Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Ataturk), which now homes the state climate service. Pasha readily agreed.
Announcement of the beginning of Anadolu throughout the nation
Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) not solely introduced the institution of Anadolu with a historic round he despatched to the entire nation but additionally pointed to the significance of saying the nation’s wrestle internationally.
The round he signed on the company’s institution reads as follows:
“After the fortress of Islam, the Ottoman Empire’s heart Istanbul fell into the fingers of the enemy, our nation and our nation are confronted with an excellent risk. All of Anatolia and Rumelia (former Ottoman possessions within the Balkans) at the moment are engaged in a sacred wrestle. Throughout this hardship, Muslims in our lands ought to have the ability to attain the truest information regionally and internationally, and for that cause, an establishment known as Anadolu Company has been based with probably the most senior and knowledgeable names underneath the directorate of a council.”
On the company’s duties, he stated it might present information and knowledge and might additionally disseminate official decrees of the consultant council. Its information gadgets could be put up on designated roads, streets, and facilities, however extra importantly, they’d be despatched to all provinces, together with the farthest corners of all villages, he stated.
He additionally emphasised that it was not simply information, however factual information that needed to be disseminated. When he stated the information needs to be unfold with the doable quickest means, he additionally meant to make use of all sources which information businesses internationally have been utilizing. He established the duty to supply information that has all of the important components – fact, exactitude, and objectivity – and may attain the individuals as rapidly as doable.
Anadolu begins its information operations
After the announcement, Anadolu started its operations on April 12, 1920, in a room on the Ziraat Mektebi headquarters.
“One of many lengthy and slim rooms within the quarters was given to us, and all there was have been cabinets, a chair, two tables, and an outdated typewriter,” Edip wrote in her memoirs.
The workplace was later moved to the basement of a highschool after which to a two-story constructing in Ankara’s Samanpazari district. All of the information was produced with the identical typewriter that Mustafa Kemal had discovered for Halide Edip on the Ottoman Financial institution.
1st information revealed on April 12, 1920
In its first bulletin, the state of affairs within the nation was laid out, and inside this framework, the aim of the institution of Anadolu was given.
The bulletin careworn the significance of the distribution of company bulletins, whereas the necessity for the institution of a community for the distribution of those bulletins and its common operation was emphasised.
The primary bulletin contained information from each house and overseas.
The company’s historic first bulletin learn as follows:
“The middle of our state has fallen into enemy fingers. Whereas Anatolia and Rumelia are on the transfer to hitch this nationwide wrestle with willpower, it’s incumbent upon us to make it possible for our brothers in religion and nation are updated with probably the most correct information and knowledge. For that cause, Anadolu Company begins its work, starting at present.
“Everybody has the precise to know, entry, and skim tales and information about what’s occurring round them. Thus, now we have created particular activity forces which is able to carry you the information, put it up on the doorways of telegraph places of work, and in addition publish and distribute it if there are sufficient sources, and take it to the furthest factors of our provinces and villages. On this activity, we additionally ask for our individuals’s assist and help. Having stated that, here’s what has lately occurred …”
Initially, it was determined to publish a minimum of two bulletins per day, and nice consideration was paid to delivering Anadolu’s information nationwide.
Anadolu, with its institution, introduced to the entire nation by official declarations, was meant to tell the general public concerning the causes, route of developments, and different components of the nationwide wrestle for independence in Anatolia to light up individuals with probably the most correct home and international information.
Mustafa Kemal was additionally carefully within the functioning of Anadolu all through the nation, and for this goal not solely introduced the institution of the company but additionally wrote varied correspondence, particularly on the problem of delivering company bulletins.
Any neglect in delivering Anadolu bulletins ‘crime towards the homeland’
In a round to the Anatolian Telegraph Heart on April 18, 1920, Mustafa Kemal known as any neglect in delivering company bulletins “against the law towards the homeland.”
“We’re receiving complaints that Anadolu Company bulletins haven’t been unfold or despatched to some locations. At the moment, when Anatolia has misplaced all technique of communication with the skin, we undoubtedly contemplate that this service, undertaken in order that no members of the nation are left unaware, may also be accepted and strengthened by all our telegraph operators, and we wish it identified that negligence on this regard will represent against the law towards the motherland.”
Anadolu turns into voice of nationwide wrestle
The institution of the company stirred nice pleasure in Anatolia, which was curious concerning the developments associated to the nationwide wrestle, the brand new Ankara authorities, and above all wished independence.
Telegraphs congratulating the company flowed to Ankara from all corners of the nation. These messages stated the individuals have been prepared to supply every kind of assist in delivering the company’s information in every single place doable.
However there have been many challenges. It was not doable to publish and distribute the company’s very first points in massive numbers, which have been printed in a small room. The printing press in Ankara was outdated and regularly broke down. Typically the bulletins have been printed with a mimeograph, and at occasions have been even handwritten and despatched to submit places of work.
Anadolu bulletins have been additionally often despatched to troops who have been preventing on the entrance. They have been additionally despatched to native newspapers struggling to publish factual information to lift consciousness of the resistance among the many individuals, towards all oppression and invasion makes an attempt of the Allied forces.
On the orders of Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), the company’s information was additionally despatched to the individuals of occupied Istanbul and the native media there with utmost secrecy. With the Ankara authorities’s official decrees, necessary information from overseas, warnings for the general public, information from the entrance, and solutions to the Allied forces’ propaganda, Anadolu bulletins bridged a niche within the information. It successfully launched and defended a second entrance within the struggle.
Apart from the 2 founders and Hamdullah Suphi Bey, the variety of workers within the workplace quickly rose to 10.
In the present day, Anadolu ranks among the many world’s most reputed information businesses, boasting 85 places of work throughout 81 cities nationwide and 39 facilities overseas, with operations in 144 nations.
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