1927-1950 Yılları Arasında Türkiye'de Radyo Yayıncılığı

Abstract

This study, which consists of three chapters, was limited to 1927-1950 as it covered the single-party period. In the first part, communication, mass communication, propaganda, the history of radio, radio broadcasts in the world, radio management forms, international radio organizations and the concept of public service broadcasting are emphasized. In the second section, representing the first years of radio broadcasting in Turkey, "the company era" radio broadcasting activities are discussed. During this period, the establishment of the Turkish Cordless Telephone joint stock Company TTTAŞ, the first radio broadcasts, radio broadcasting on special days and national festivals, and the prohibition of Turkish music on the radio were illustrated with examples, memories of witnesses and historical data. In the third chapter, State-era radio broadcasting is discussed. In this section, the opening of the Ankara Radio House, speech, music, news and entertainment broadcasts on radio, radio broadcasting in Atatürk's illness and death, radio broadcasting during the period of war and multiparty life, the resumption of Istanbul Radio, shortwave broadcasting and educational radios, number of receiver and transmitter power with population rate in Turkey is discussed. The study was concluded with conclusions and appendices related to the subjects in the text. In this study, apart from similar studies, the ‘radio’ reality, it is considered a “subject” and is not related to any phenomenon, event or situation. Therefore, the radio has been examined in its own line of development, and while doing so, it has not been purified from the society and conditions in which it lives. The aim of this research is to determine the reflections of the conditions of the period between 1927-1950 over radio broadcasts, the phases of radio broadcasting in Turkey, performing his duties, functions, discussions on and it is to reveal his place in Turkey's development.The history of radio in Turkey that the idea that the Turkish nation is a summary of the history of modernization, is one of the preliminary assumptions of this study.