Search for academic articles about Şinasi. Many scholars upload the appendix of their papers containing the original Ottoman text of the Mukaddime as a downloadable PDF via Academia.edu or ResearchGate.
In this preface, İbrahim Şinasi outlined the duties and rights of a journalist. He argued that a newspaper should act as a "school for the public" ( mekteb-i umumî ). He broke down the relationship between the government and the governed through the lens of the press. Tasviri Efkar Mukaddimesi Pdf Download