The Spanish Civil War in the mirror of the Turkish press

The article examines the news on the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) publiched in the leading Turkish newspapers – «Cumhuriyet», «Akşam», «Ulus» and «Tan». The analysis of the news makes it possible to draw conclusions about the ambiguity of the coverage of events in Spain in the Turkish press. On the one hand, there was support for the Republican troops and the government in the left-leaning newspaper «Tan». On the other hand, the Kemalist official newspapers («Cumhuriyet», «Ulus», etc.) conveyed a neutral position. These trends reflected the attitude in Turkey towards the issue of the Spanish Civil War – if the leftist forces were entirely in favor of solidarity with the Spanish Republic, the Ankara government was detached from this problem by implementing the principle of "Peace within the country, peace throughout the world" (in Turkish. «Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh») in practice.