A contribution to the history of the press in Turkey and its figures

As the newly formed republic has been an important figure for the shaping of the universities: bureaucratic professions were on the front and had a privilege, especially law was being one of these. 

And the press, till the 1960s where modern political movements have begun to take the popular attention, most of the figures of the press were from a background of law as a formation. This is broadly the frame for the first generation of this profession.

As the Mülkiye or the Political Science Faculty of Ankara University became more popular (As taking the place of the Lyçee de Galatasaray or Sultaniyya, which used to serve as the main source of human resource for the bureaucracy and primarily the ministry of foreign affairs during the Ottoman era) second generation was more from the field of the Political Science formation. 

Although a wide-spread workers movement or leftists organizations was on the rise Ankara University was in a way disciplined by the newly formed republic as a political culture and even nationalist left discourse was primarily shaped in this environment. Students of the Ankara University always had a dilemma in between the state or national privileges and the new thoughts brought by the changing world. 

But they also learned the metier from this lawyers-generation.

After the 1980's press was quite in peril and uneasy for the young generations whereas there were much more enjoyable professions. (And Hurriyet newspaper with its then varieties has also emerged at that time proposing of being "above political parties" in its editorial framework. )

But still there was office for translation in the newspapers which was quite important (It was even quite important during the Ottoman period where there was not any university but the office for translation was actually the source of human resource for the intellectual and bureaucratic fields.) and the later generations were mostly selected by their skills in foreign languages. And it used to make this profession more enjoyable, as well.

Yet, law students then could find jobs with better salaries and now there is not much who are pursuing a path in the press. 

But the figures of the press is actually now more close to a profession focusing on the historical or, say, literary (as its forms and styles of communication) analysis of the political life with references to the political theory mainly.