Magdeleine Marx, reportrice en Turquie pour l’Humanité

Abstract

This article is based in particular on reports made in Turkey by Magdeleine Marx, committed journalist and communist activist, oppositional then socialist, anti-racist, human rights defender. The sixteen articles studied, published in the front page of Humanity from November 1921 to January 1922, reflect the state of Turkey and its inhabitants after the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920. The analysis of Magdeleine Marx’s work reveals not only her quality as an investigator and her great professionalism, but also her militancy. Anxious to present a rigorous description of the country and devoid of orientalism, she seeks to challenge preconceived ideas. The article emphasizes the involvement of this intellectual who wants to approach the truth of a situation. Thanks to a work of investigation stimulated by ideas of the left, and while putting an oratory art in his pen, the reports of Magdeleine Marx constitute a precious source of the involvement of an intellectual in the interwar period.

Keywords

• l’Humanité
• Magdeleine Marx
• Reporting
• Turkey
• Mustapha Kemal
• Journalism