ABSTRACT

Russia that wanted to result to the 1908 Bosnia-Herzegovina crisis for its own political domination tried to establish different political unity on the region between the years 1908-1912. In this goal, it attituded that led to more discrimination to the region peoples, not in the Balkan unity. Russia supporting the Balkan Orthodox and Slavic peoples to form a union againt the Ottoman Empire achieved in this idea and caused the Balkan wars that was seen as proof of Great War. In the Russian magazine and newspapers, the articles were written in terms of making all kinds of material and spiritual assistance to the Balkan Orthodox and Slavic peoples during Balkan wars. Important Russian newspapers like Novoe Vremya, Peterburgskaya Gazeta, Moskovskie (Moskovskiya) Vedemosti, Peterburgskie (Peterburgskiya) Vedemosti, Den gave place to the cartoons in their columns with articles while the Balkan wars continuing. The fall of Edirne led to great happiness in Russian newspapers on 26th March 1913. In the other way, with the result of disagreement among the Balkan Orthodox and Slavic peoples, the Balkan Unity that Russia had imagined for two centuries and fought with European states for the realization of that idea collapsed. With the Second Balkan War, the retrieval of Edirne by Turkey (Due to that Turkey used in Russian newspapers, the term of Ottoman was not used) caused the bereavement in the Russian newspapers. In this study, it will be focused on how the occupation and withdrawal of Edirne was evaluated in Russian newspapers by means of cartoons.