# Basiret

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{{Short description|Daily newspaper in the Ottoman Empire (1869–1879)}}
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| founded           = 1869
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| headquarters         = [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople)
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'''''Basiret''''' ([Ottoman Turkish](/source/Ottoman_Turkish): ''Insightfulness'') was an Ottoman daily newspaper which was published in [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople) in the period 1869–1879. It was one of the most read newspapers of that period and had a [pan-Islamist](/source/Pan-Islamism) approach.<ref>{{cite book
|author=Kasuya Gen|editor=Stéphane A. Dudoignon|display-editors=et. al.|title=Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World. Transmission, Transformation and Communication|year=2006|publisher=[Routledge](/source/Routledge)|location=London; New York|page=80|isbn=9780415549790|archive-date=18 April 2021|chapter-url=https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0b2c707b-6582-4ae1-9761-8ca53b510504/1005915.pdf|chapter=The influence of al-Manar on Islamism in Turkey: The case of Mehmed Âkif|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418132915/https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0b2c707b-6582-4ae1-9761-8ca53b510504/1005915.pdf}}</ref>

==History and profile==
''Basiret'' was established by Ali Efendi, a journalist, in 1869,<ref name=onur>{{cite journal|author=Onur İşçi|title=Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat: Russian and Ottoman Newspapers in the War of 1877-78|issue=2|journal=[Russian History](/source/Russian_History_(Brill_journal))
|year=2014|volume=41|pages=190–191|doi=10.1163/18763316-04102005}}</ref> and the first issue appeared on 23 January 1870.<ref name=tdsas>{{cite journal|author1=Tuba Demirci|author2=Selçuk Akşin Somel|title=Women's Bodies, Demography, and Public Health: Abortion Policy and Perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the Nineteenth Century|journal=[Journal of the History of Sexuality](/source/Journal_of_the_History_of_Sexuality)|date=September 2008|volume=17|issue=3|page=410
|doi=10.1353/sex.0.0025|jstor=20542700|s2cid=7721368|pmid=19263614}}</ref> He was also the publisher of the paper and began to be known as Basiretçi Ali Efendi due to the popularity of the paper.<ref name=tdsas/> He was financed by [German Chancellor](/source/Chancellor_of_Germany) [Otto von Bismarck](/source/Otto_von_Bismarck) in getting printing machines to launch the paper.<ref>{{cite web|author=M. Kayahan Özgül|title=Periyodiklerin İstanbul Kültürüne Etkileri|publisher=İstanbul Tarihi|url=https://istanbultarihi.ist/251-periyodiklerin-istanbul-kulturune-etkileri|access-date=28 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105032218/https://istanbultarihi.ist/251-periyodiklerin-istanbul-kulturune-etkileri|archive-date=5 November 2021|language=tr}}</ref><ref name=musg>{{cite journal|author=Mustafa Gencer|title=The Congress of Berlin (1878) in Context of the Ottoman-German Relations|journal=Tarihin Peşinde|year=2014|volume=12|page=298|url=http://www.tarihinpesinde.com/dergimiz/sayi12/M12_12.pdf
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127110412/http://www.tarihinpesinde.com/dergimiz/sayi12/M12_12.pdf|archive-date=27 November 2020}}</ref>

''Basiret'' sold 40,000 copies in the first year.<ref name=onur/> Then it enjoyed both high levels of circulation and of influence among the Turks living in the Empire.<ref name=mcan>{{cite journal|author=Murat Cankara|title=Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet|journal=[Middle Eastern Studies](/source/Middle_Eastern_Studies_(journal))|year=2015|volume=51|doi=10.1080/00263206.2014.951038
|issue=1|page=6|s2cid=144548203}}</ref> The readers of the paper were mostly conservative [Muslims](/source/Muslims).<ref name=tdsas/> Major contributors included [Ali Suavi](/source/Ali_Suavi), [Namık Kemal](/source/Nam%C4%B1k_Kemal) and [Ahmet Mithat](/source/Ahmet_Mithat).<ref name=mcan/> ''Basiret'' covered critical articles about the bureaucratic structure of the Ottoman Empire.<ref name=tdsas/>

''Basiret'' had links to the [Young Ottomans movement](/source/Young_Ottomans).<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard Eissenstat|editor1=Stefan Berger
|editor2=Alexei Miller|title=Nationalizing Empires|year=2015|publisher=Central European University Press|location=Budapest|isbn=978-963-386-016-8|page=448|jstor=10.7829/j.ctt16rpr1r|chapter-url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctt16rpr1r|chapter=Modernization, Imperial Nationalism, and the Ethnicization of Confessional Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire}}</ref> During the [Franco-Prussian War](/source/Franco-Prussian_War) in 1870-1871 the paper supported the Germans.<ref name=musg/><ref>{{cite journal|author=Cevat Fehmi Baskut|title=Prominent Figures in Turkish Journalism|volume=10
|journal=[International Communication Gazette](/source/International_Communication_Gazette)|date=February 1964|issue=1|page=85|doi=10.1177/001654926401000113|s2cid=144350383}}</ref> It became a platform for the pan-Islamist and [pan-Turkist](/source/Pan-Turkism) figures leaving its objective approach at the beginning of the [Russo-Turkish War](/source/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877%E2%80%931878)) in 1877.<ref name=onur/>

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