[THE FIRST PRIVATE NEWS AGENCY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE / WARTIME EPHEMERA / JUDAICA] Osmanli Telgraf Ajansi = Agence Telegraphique Ottomane, Pera - Constantinople. Douzieme Edition du 13 Aôut 1914 [Bulletin]

GÜRCI, SALIH B. (Owner) (1884-1927). Fratelli Haim, Constantinople, 1914. Original broadside telegraph bulletin. (35x21 cm). Bilingual title in Ottoman Turkish and French. 1 p. A very good copy. A highly uncommon partially lithographed bulletin issued to subscribers during World War I by the Ottoman Telegraph Agency, established by Salih Gürci, a Baghdad-born Jewish journalist. As the first private news service of the Ottoman Empire, the agency was eventually shut down by the authorities due to its wartime bulletins, which reflected Gürci’s pro-French stance. The bulletin consists of nine news articles from Berlin and Petersburg, covering a range of wartime developments. These included the Italian ambassador's departure for Rome, a declaration by the Russian Tsar calling Russian Jews to the army and the German press's mocking response, the success of the Goeben and Breslau battleships in breaking through British lines, Austrian troops on the Russian border being placed under the comman