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The first official newspaper of the Ottoman Empire based in Istanbul is Takvim-i Vekayi. The main purpose of the newspaper was to popularize the state laws and reforms. This newspaper was subsequently followed by semi-official and private publications. Tuna Provincial Reform Law of 1864, provided the reflection of the media life to the Ottoman country. The Reform included the establishment of a printing house in each province and the issue of the newspapers of the province. Diyarbakir's first official provincial newspaper is Diyarbekir Newspaper, which started its publication in 1869. During the post-Constitutional period when Committee of Union and Progress began to strengthen, private newspapers started to be published. One of them is Dicle, which was published between 1911-1915. Dicle Newspaper was published with the support of the Diyarbakir branch of the CUP. The newspaper published articles on internal and external political, social, economic, intellectual and literary issues throughout its 4 years of publication. In this study, the publishing phase of Dicle, its writer staff, its publication policy and its importance for Diyarbakır were examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sportsmanship, a profession in today's world, has its amateurism and professionalism lines intertwined. Sportsmen legally seen as amateurs in many sports fields are known to earn more than the professionals accepted to be in the high earning range. The study investigates the concept of amateurism in sports in the context of the decision taken for wrestlers and athlete whose amateur status was not approved by the Turkish National Olympics Committee since the above mentioned sportsmen had accepted presents in 1948 London Olympics after they earned medals. The study reviewed the news and comments published in newspapers Aksam, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Milliyet and Vatan in the period of 1948 London and 1952 Helsinki Olympics. According to the results, papers published that sportsmen were often given warnings about not to damaging the amateurism rule while they were presented with awards. The decision taken by the Turkish National Olympics Committee prior to 1952 Helsinki Olympics were criticized harshly in the news and comments published in those newspapers. The decision taken by the Turkish National Olympics Committee prior to 1952 Helsinki Olympics was discussed considerably during and after the games. It can be argues that this decision has lost its rationale by the changes in the concept of amateurism in Olympics in the 50 years that passed by. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our century mankind goes on his search for his past deep through the history and science like he did before. Nowadays, it has become absolutely certain that, despite the origin and main structure of human cells and molecules are the same with other creatures, the DNA and genetic structures of humans are different than others by invalidating the evaluation theory. In the century in which the science makes very fast progresses, leaning on the findings attained, it has become necessary to re-analyze the perceptional processes in human mind and to investigate what he perceives from concepts and objects in the relation of individual and environment. Therefore, matching the social and personal dimensions of public rights is based on the perception of the individual with his level of public consciousness. Human rights concern every individual and the governments having the charge of the press and associations of the mass media directly at the same level. For this reason, in order to make the world public opinion agree terms in collective administration correct and common perception of general concepts is required. This article relates the role of the press in matching the individual and behaviours with public consciousness to the behaviour types resulting from the perception form of human rights and claims that there is a relationship between the personality formation and socialization periods and examines human rights by means of this paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]