2014/01/01 by Bora Ataman, Cem Pekman · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Historical Turkish Studies
paper · doi:10.1163/9789004255975_011
openalex publication_date 2014/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Sehbal differed primarily in its printing quality, visuals, paper, layout, binding, and aesthetic presentation. Although it had a talented editorial staff and valuable content, its form shone out at once; therefore in the history of Turkish journalism Sehbal deserves close examination. First, in terms of printing quality, Sehbal remained almost unrivalled for decades. Its true rivals appeared a few decades later, in the Republican era. This chapter analyses a periodical which pushed the limits of its time, and was awarded a gold medal in Turin for the quality of its printing in 1911, two years after its first publication. Sehba l forms one of the precious pages in the history of the Turkish press, being a markedly aesthetic publication in both name and content,an illustrated journal, about everything. In the course of one hundred issues, it published nearly 4,000 photographs and 1,500 articles. Keywords: Sehbal journal; Karabet printing houses; Ottoman Turkish Press