SERGİ-İ UMUMİ-İ OSMANİ'NİN (1863) AÇILIŞI VE SERGİ'NİN DUYURULMASINDA GAZETELERİN ROLÜ.

In Europe, in the 19th century, expositions were organised nationally at first as a result of development in trade and increase on production. As of the second half of the 19th century, these expositions were held internatinoally. Ottoman Empire cared to oin this international expositions in Europe in contemplation of promoting of the statae and joined most of the expositions. An idea to open an exposition in the Ottoman Empire was formed in the course of the time because an exposition would be important fort he country's industry and would provide the society to be informed about the production of the industry. In this direction, a board was formed under Mustafa Fazıl Paşa and the exposition was opened in the month of Ramadan in 1863 in Istanbul. While organizing the event, exposition committee benefited from the newspapers and used them effectively. The media organs of the period were also interested in the exposition. The intellectuals wrote about the significance of the exposition and exposition's effects on economy on their collumns, and promoted the participation to event. In this study, Ottoman's first exhibition 1863 Ottoman General Exposition is analyzed through newspapers of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]