Le Journal d'Orient

{{Short description|Weekly French language newspaper in Ottoman Empire and Turkey (1918–1971)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox newspaper | image = | caption = | type = Weekly newspaper | format = | owner = | founder = Albert Karasu | publisher = | president = | editor = | chief_editor = | founded = 1918 | political_position = | language = French | ceased_publication = 1971 | relaunched = | headquarters = {{ubl|Constantinople | Istanbul}} | publishing_city = | publishing_country = {{ubl|Ottoman Empire | Turkey}} | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | eISSN = | oclc = | RNI = }} '''''Le Journal d'Orient''''' (French: ''The Gazette of the East'') was a long-term weekly newspaper that existed between 1918 and 1971 with a two-year interruption first in the Ottoman Empire and then in Turkey.

==History and profile== ''Le Journal d'Orient'' was established by Albert Karasu in 1918 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Albert Karasu |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/karasu-albert|encyclopedia=Jewish Virtual Library|year=2008}}</ref> He was a Jewish journalist from Thessaloniki.<ref name=stan/> Karasu also edited the paper which came out weekly in Istanbul.<ref name=levher/> It ceased publication in 1924, but was restarted in 1926.<ref name=gerlew/> ''Le Journal d'Orient'' permanently folded in 1971.<ref name=levher>{{cite web|title=Partial list of Levantine published newspapers of Turkey|url=http://www.levantineheritage.com/newsp2.htm|publisher=Levantine Heritage|access-date=13 April 2023}}</ref>

Major contributors of the paper included Angele Loreley, Willy Sperco,<ref name=levher/> Lea Zolotarevsky, Marsel Shalom, Moshe Benbasat (Benbasan) and Aaron Zonana.<ref name=gerlew>{{cite encyclopedia|author=D Gershon Lewental|title=Le Journal d'Orient|doi=10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013540|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0013540|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The paper had a Zionist political stance at the initial period, but it later faded.<ref name=gerlew/> Instead, ''Le Journal d'Orient'' had a cultural Levantine approach.<ref name=levher/> Following the liberation of İzmir from the Greek invasion in September 1922 and the Treaty of Lausanne on 24 July 1923, the paper began to support Mustafa Kemal's movement which would establish the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923.<ref name=frage/>

As of 1923 the paper sold nearly 4,000 copies.<ref name=frage>{{cite journal|author=François Georgeon|title=Kemalist Dönemde Türkiye'de Fransızca Yayın Yapan Basına Toplu Bir Bakış (1919-1938)|url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/aamd/issue/54894/752167#article_cite |journal=Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi|year=1990|volume=6|issue=17|pages=324, 329|translator=Niyazi Öktem|language=tr}}</ref>

In 2018 a book was published about the newspaper in relation to the social life of minorities in Turkey.<ref name=stan>{{cite book|title=Le journal d'Orient gazetesi ve İstanbullu azınlıkların ve levantenlerin cemiyet hayatı (1950-1971)|year=2018|publisher=Stanford University Libraries|isbn=9786052380772|oclc=1079009859|access-date=13 April 2023|url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12863887}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Le Journal d'Orient Gazetesi ve İstanbullu Azınlıkların ve Levantenlerin Cemiyet Hayatı (1950-1971)|access-date=13 April 2023|language=tr |url=https://www.iberlibro.com/9786052380772/Journal-dOrient-Gazetesi-Istanbullu-Azinliklarin-6052380772/plp|website=Iberlibro.com}}</ref>

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