Atrocity Propaganda and the Nationalization of the Masses in the Ottoman Empire During the Balkan Wars (1912–13)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8970629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y Doğan Çetinkaya (0000-0002-1914-0092, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 759-778 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743814001056 |
| OpenAlex | W2131210878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 15 |
During the Balkan Wars (1912–13), the mobilization of the home front became significant for the belligerent states, which initiated propaganda activities demonizing their enemies and galvanizing the emotions of their publics. This paper explores one type of such mobilization efforts from above, atrocity propaganda, through which states sought to invoke hatred and mobilize public support for war by focusing on the atrocities ( mezalim ) that their coreligionists had suffered at the hands of enemies. Although the term “atrocity propaganda” has been used exclusively in the context of World War I in the historiography, the practice it describes was effectively utilized during the earlier Balkan Wars. In the Ottoman Empire, both state and civil initiatives played crucial roles in the making of atrocity propaganda, which was disseminated through intense coverage in the Turkish-language press. The imagery it employed shifted with the onset of the wars, becoming increasingly shocking. Atrocity propaganda contributed to the well-known radicalization of nationalism in the late Ottoman Empire
Ancient history · Belligerent · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Empire · Mobilization · Nationalism · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Radicalization · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Terrorism · Turkish · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
Turkey
The Balkan Wars 1912-1913
State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War
The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913
Great War, Total War
Illustrated Atrocity
Mobilizing the Ottoman Nation during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913)
Words as Weapons
The Foreign Office and British Propaganda during the First World War
Wellington House and British Propaganda during the First World War
Atrocity Propaganda and the Irish Rebellion
German "Atrocities" and Franco-German Opinion, 1914
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |