Algerian Review of Ottoman and Mediterranean Studies
Volume 1, Numéro 1, Pages 113-130
2021-12-31

Donanma Mecmuası’na Göre Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun 19. Ve 20. Yüzyıllarda Mağrip Siyaseti

Auteurs : Nemlioğlu Koca Yasemin .

Résumé

Algeria, the largest country in Africa, is the gateway to Central Africa by its more than 1200 km coast in the Mediterranean Sea. Due to its geographical location, Maghreb Region has played an important role in the commercial and political domination of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean in the past. On the other hand, Algeria was of great importance in the success of Ottoman politics in the Western Mediterranean and North Africa. Despite the loss of Maghreb in the 19th-20th centuries, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli played an important role in the Mediterranean and jihad policies of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman proclamation of the Great Jihad (Cihad-ı Ekber) in World War I in 1914 sets an example of the relation between religion and politics. The Ottoman leaders and its allied Germany act in union in the aim of proclaiming this jihad to all Muslim living outside Anatolia. During the war in Europe and the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the war, the Ottoman press adopted an Islamic rhetoric and explained to public the necessity of jihad to save Islam and Muslims around the World. Therefore, the Ottoman press was used in order to prepare the psychology of the masses for the war by publications. One of these publications, the “Donanma Mecmuası” (Navy Journal) was issued by the Navy Association in 1910-1919. In this journal, there were articles about the maritime, naval and foreign policy of the Ottoman Empire, whose authors were navy officers, bureaucrats and intellectuals. In this study, an attempt has been made to explain examples of the Donanma Mecmuası reflecting the view of the Ottoman Navy towards the Maghreb politics at the beginning of the 20thcentury.

Mots clés

Navy Journal ; World War I ; Algeria in Colonial Times ; The Ottoman caliphate ; Jihad