The newspaper of Papağan analysis, analytical index, selected texts

The newspaper of Papağan, started to be published by Orhan Seyfi on the date of 23 April 1924, continued its publishing life during 239 issues. In this study, it is examined two-year-publication activity of Papağan whose content was full of literary texts written by humorous style and that gave important information about the period when the newspaper was published. In the first section of the study, consisting of five sections, it is mentioned that development process of Turkish press and made an evaluation about literature and press in the axis of humor and satire. In the second section, Papağan's start and process of broadcast, editorial policy and shape features are investigated; its writer, poet and cartoonist team is introduced by considering their activities in the newspaper of Papağan. At the end of the second section, genres that make up the content of the newspaper are evaluated. In the third section, there are two indexs: The first one is created according to the names of authors and poets, and the second one is created according to the genres of texts in the newspaper. In the fourth section, selected texts chosen from the newspaper, prepared by considering its features, are transliterated into Latin alphabet. In the fifth section, it is made a general assessment about the charectiristics, significance and content of the newspaper. Keywords: Papağan, Orhan Seyfi, Turkish press, humor, satire