Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

Abstract

The letters which contribute to historiography have a unique function to understand the spirit of the time which belong to. The socioeconomic and cultural images which the letters contain, contribute to analysis of the history with a lot of indicators and witnesses. It offers opportunity to the historian for reinterpreting the past by the naked eye that disclosing the indicators which are in the text by catching them. The letters of Kâtip Rüstemzâde Abdülhamid Effendi from Görele which is approached in this work are the texts which including the years of 1924-1966 and giving an idea about the social conditions of the recent period. These texts in terms of flashing to the financial difficulties in talked about the period, the relationships between people, the address form, the alterations in the written communication culture and many more, are worth examining. This work also serves as a model in terms of some community continued to use Ottoman alphabet for years after The Alphabet Reform in Turkey, in 1928. This community which includes Abdülhamid Effendi, preferred the old letters in their private correspondences, memories and notes for their habits, although they learned the new Turkish letters after the reform. As will be seen in this work; as the letters which belong to Abdülhamid Effendi, have written by the old letters, also have Ottoman wording. But when drifted toward from 1924 to 1966, the changes of the forms and contents of the letters also have come to a state in sight.