World News in Basra Ottoman Newspaper

Abstract

Ottoman basrah newspaper has issued its issue on 30th October in 1890 it stopped during the British occupation of basrah on November 22nd in 1914.it was issued every Thursday .the first editor-in-chief for it was Mohammed ali effendi .The news paper consists of four pages ,the first and the second are in Turkish, the third and the forth on translation into Arabic of the first two onesThe paper aims at recognizing the international news in the news paper that was published under different headlines such as ((citations ,((paper and event)).the source of that news transferred from newspapers issued in Istanbul, or from news about journalism as a job, scientific invention ,economic news , construction news ,side the social news ,and news on oddities .Finally, it contained the political and military news that is related to the presidents and ministers and the news of the first world war.