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title: 'Tasvir-i Efkar front page, 29 October 1915: Ottoman-Entente war anniversary'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tasvir-i-efkar-war-anniversary-1915/
description: The Istanbul daily's front page marks the war's first anniversary with a framed soldier holding a bayoneted rifle before a huge red flag with white…
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# Tasvir-i Efkar front page, 29 October 1915: Ottoman-Entente war anniversary

The Istanbul daily's front page marks the war's first anniversary with a framed soldier holding a bayoneted rifle before a huge red flag with white crescent and star, flanked by a Dardanelles map, a skyline view and round portraits of two named officers. Captions, as read here, tie the Çanakkale defence and the Caliphate to 300 million Muslims, lending the flag and the officers that wider stake.

- **Date:** October 29, 1915
- **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi)
- **Made by:** Tasvir-i Efkar (Istanbul daily newspaper), published under wartime Ottoman censorship
- **Region:** [Middle East and North Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=middle-east-north-africa)
- **Country:** [Ottoman Empire](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=ottoman-empire)
- **Medium:** [Newspaper pages](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=newspaper-page)
- **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media)
- **Regime:** [Ottoman Empire](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=ottoman-empire)
- **Leader:** [Said Halim Pasha](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=said-halim-pasha)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Commemorate](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=commemorate)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [World War I](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-i)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tasviri_Efkar_Oct_29,_1915.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (published in the Ottoman Empire 1915; Commons PD-Ottoman, before 1931) Tasvir-i Efkar, Istanbul, 29 October 1915, no. 1589; scan via Gelibolu'yu Anlamak, on Wikimedia Commons

## Text on the object

Original (Ottoman Turkish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
تصوير افكار
مستقل الافكار غزته
نومرو ١٥٨٩ - نسخه‌سی ١٠ پاره
دار الخلافه - جمعه - ٢٠ ذي الحجه ١٣٣٣ - ١٦ تشرين اول ١٣٣١ - ٢٩ تشرين اول ١٩١٥

عثمانلی - ائتلاف دولتلری
١٦ تشرين اول ١٣٣٠
حربك دور سنويسی
١٩ ذي الحجه ١٣٣٢

[caption, right picture:] اوچ يوز ميليون اسلامك استناد كاه و التجا كاهی اولان مقام خلافت عظمی
[caption, left picture:] محافظه و مدافعه سنده كوستريلن علو فدا كاری سايه سنده اوچ يوز ميليون اسلامك سلامت ورفاهی تامين ايديلش [illegible] «چناق قلعه بوغازی»
[caption, central picture:] جنود منصوره اسلاميه نك بر مثل ذی جلادتی
[under left portrait:] میرلوا جواد پاشا
[under right portrait:] میرالای مصطفی کمال بك افندی

[article columns and lower-page articles: not transcribed]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Tasvir-i Efkar
Independent newspaper of ideas
No. 1589 - single copy 10 para
Abode of the Caliphate - Friday - 20 Zilhicce 1333 - 16 Teşrinievvel 1331 - 29 October 1915

Ottoman - Entente Powers
16 Teşrinievvel 1330
Anniversary of the war [reading of 'دور سنويسی' approximate]
19 Zilhicce 1332

[right picture:] The seat of the Great Caliphate, the support and refuge of three hundred million Muslims
[left picture:] Thanks to the lofty self-sacrifice shown in its protection and defence, the safety and welfare of three hundred million Muslims was secured [illegible] 'Çanakkale Strait'
[central picture:] A valiant example of the victorious Islamic soldiers
[left portrait:] Brigadier Cevat Pasha
[right portrait:] Colonel Mustafa Kemal Bey Efendi

[article columns not transcribed]
```

Only headline, masthead and caption text is transcribed; readings of Arabic-script Ottoman Turkish are from a 1280 px image and some captions may contain misreadings. Translation is literal, machine-made, and not checked by a fluent reader.

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