ABSTRACT

It is impossible to say that Idil-Ural Turks were ready for the new era which was established in Russia after the manifest of 1905 Russian revolution. However, Idil-Ural Turks adapted the manifest’s freedom atmosphere and especially geared up the mass media facilities. Ulfet Newspaper which is our study topic, began to publish in such an time. The first issue of the newspaper which belongs to Abdurresid Ibrahim who was a journalist and an author at the same time, met its readers on 11th December 1905. The newspaper determined its policy as “scientific and politic”, hence form the first issue until the last tried to be consistent with its policy in terms of its publications. The newspaper tried to find solutions to those problems by dealing with general problems of Muslims living in Russia/ teh newspaper which told the idea that Muslims should be in political unity could not resist the pressure so had to give an end to its publishinh period on the 7th 1907 at a time when censor ship of Russian goverment increased.