“…This relative lack of historiographical interest is even more pronounced with Le Moniteur Ottoman. To date, only three studies exist, all by Orhan Koloğlu (1986Koloğlu ( , 1991Koloğlu ( , 1992 on this French edition of the gazette, which has 106 issues published over almost five years (November 1831 -June 1836). Worse still, the Greek, Armenian, Arabic and Persian versions have not been studied to date, except for a few notes by an amateur historian published in a short daily newspaper article in the early 1940s (Gerçek [1941(Gerçek [ -1945: 110-121).…”