Türkçe Medeniyet Dersleri: 15 Yemek İçmek Adabına Dair! Efendiler, şu havası, suyu güzel memleketimizde enva çeşit hastalıklar türeyor. Doktorlar buna gıdasızlık diyorlar. Hani can boğazdan gelir, derler bu sözü unutmamalı. Bir insan yiyeceği şeylere çok dikkat etmelidir. Fakir de olsa yenecek şeylerin en kuvvetlisini seçmelidir. Ve vaktinde yemelidir. Bizde çok…

Comments: As a self-proclaimed “people’s gazette” or halk gazetesi, the bi-weekly journal Karagöz considered itself the voice of the people, which is conveyed through its use of an unadorned vernacular language and through the simplicity or straightforward nature of its illustrations and cartoons. …

Türkçe: Yine Bazarganlara Gün Doğdu! Bazargan: Eskiler alıyorum, fes alıyorum, şalvar alıyorum, cübbe, sarık alıyorum. English: A New Dawn for the Bazaar Merchants! Merchant: I’m taking old/used items, I’m taking fezzes, I’m taking shalwars, I’m taking cloaks and turbans. Comments: The smell of hat reform was in the air when…

English Famous People: Édouard Manet: A French painter who was born in 1832 and died in 1883, he rendered natural landscapes in particular. They are the most beautiful specimens of the Impressionism style of artworks. Comments: This short snippet brings several subjects to mind. The content of the blurb is…

Comments: The most striking aspect of the present cartoon is its unique and elevated style. Its imagery consists of two seated men conversing. The forms of the figures are strangely angular with each of the two men sporting slightly disproportionate features such as the large pipe-holding hand of the man…

Türkçe: Fotoğrafa Hazırlık Anne: Haydi, kafir yumurcak, bir parça gül, yoksa tokadı atacağım!.. English: Preparing for the Photograph Mother: C’mon you bratty little heathen, just one smile, or else I’ll give you a slap! Comments: Small children are notoriously difficult to photograph. Today the problem is less pronounced with the…

Türkçe Nasrettin Hoca Yedinci Ayında Nasrettin Hoca altıncı ayını evvelki hafta bitirdi. İlk altı aylık kolleksiyonu tamam oldu. Bu kadar kısa zaman zarfında Nasrettin Hoca’nın gazetesi de kendisini olduğu gibi ne memleket içinde, ne de memleketin dışında ta Arnavutluk’tan tut da, Acemistan’a, Suriye’ye, Yemen’e kadar tanımayan, sevmeyen kalmadı. …

Comments: Karagöz regularly celebrated its most studious and productive paperboys by including photographs of them within the pages of the journal. This underscored the paper’s own identity as a “people’s gazette” (halk gazetesi) by illustrating how it creates jobs and rewards hard work. Pictures and stories about the paperboys would…

Comments: Summer is the proverbial “off season” for news and politics and as such, many papers of this period, especially illustrated gazettes and satirical journals would use the sweltering heat as an excuse to feature pictures of bathing suit-clad women on their front covers. This served the dual purpose of…