Ten issues "Karagoz" - A Turkish newspaper against Hitler and the Axis powers - 1940s

Ten issues "Karagoz" - A Turkish newspaper against Hitler and the Axis powers - 1940s

KARAGOZ - TURKIYENIN EN COK BASEN GAZETES - Karagoz - the basic and common newspaper in Turkey. Bi-weekly published on Sundays and Thursdays. Turkish. On the title page of each issue is a large colorful anti-Nazi cartoon. 10 sheets, 1944-1945 - Towards the fall of Nazi Germany. It is very rare to find anti-Nazi newspapers from the East during the war years.

The newspaper was founded on August 10, 1906. During the years of World War II, it regularly included reports from the battlefield, from a distinct anti-Nazi position that focused on the advance of the Allies, and the defeat of Nazi Germany. On the title page of each issue appears a large colorful anti-Nazi cartoon mocking Hitler, Nazi Germany, and the Axis powers, heralding the end of the Nazi era. On the sides of the newspaper's title page in each issue appear the two traditional "Karagoz" characters. The meaning of the word "Karagoz" in Turkish is "black eye". In the early days of Turkey it was a genre of shadow theater which presented the two characters "Karaguz" and "Hajivat" who are opposite types of character. Karagoz represents the popular and rough type, uneducated, illiterate, but with street smarts and cleverness, while Hajivat is a gentle type, representing the educated, intellectual class and speaks a high language in Ottoman Turkish. Since only the framework of the play was planned in writing, there was room for a great deal of impromptu wit, and the Karagoz performances were necessarily satirical. The newspaper used the familiar characters to mock Nazi Germany.

In the issues before us are many cartoons dealing with the defeat of Nazi Germany against Soviet Russia and the allies.

Attached: two photographs of locals in Turkey near a monument of the two Karakoz figures.

10 complete sheets (four pages in each sheet). general condition good.