Show newspapers in turkey among amon the various innovations lately intro introduced dac ed into turkey may be included that aliat of newspapers shapers the first if we are arc not mistaken appeared in constantinople in 1811 under the auspices of mr yan the former turkish consul general in new york and was called Bizan ortho or the byzantine advertiser tile the people unacquainted at that time with the aim and importance of a daily chronicler were not prepared to appreciate the value of a newspaper and were edow to patronize the paper it was obliged to stop since then more frequent intercourse with tho the rest of europe and political incidents which mado made the people eager for news gave rise to the publication of other newspapers whose number is now legion there are at present more than twenty different dailies and twenty weeklies appearing in constantinople in various dialects each advocating 0 its own particular interest among C the organs of the different nationalities in turkey may bo be mentioned the akhtar star which depre rents the persian interest in turkey it is printed in turkey script though tho the language is persian it commences at the right ri it liand hand corner comer of the sheet with the announcement that the office of publication of the akhtar is at valide khan in the seat scat of felicity constantinople all communications must be addressed to achmed fehir effendi sole editor and proprietor in imitation of french n ench journals the T paper commences with ari an editorial on the affairs of siam as a leader followed by telegraphic news both foreign and domestic extracts from foreign papers home news ners current e events edits official promotions and a few advertisements these papers are sold at an average price of 4 cents per copy and an edition of 0 2000 is considered a large circulation there being a strict surveillance over all publications by diio the government the editors are restrained from indulging in liberal thoughts thou arts and observations as well as on what news they publish so that these prints are as a matter of course vapid and devoid of interest and cannot in in any sense be called newspapers new york graphic |