Uluslararası Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Ahmet Selim BAYSAL

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Ancient Near East

Özet: The Neo-Assyrian Empire is one of the most important empires of the Ancient Near East. The empire was established in the city of Assur in Northern Mesopotamia. As a result of the successful wars of the Assyrian kings, the state expanded rapidly and the surrounding area of Mesopotamia was captured by the Assyrians. The imperialist policies of the Assyrian kings were supported by royal propaganda in steles, annuals, construction inscriptions, and relief depictions, which were the media organs of royal authority. Assyrian propaganda was meant to influence the gods, bureaucracy, future kings, people, the army, and enemies. The Assyrian kings wanted to continue the support of the gods, to embed the state ideology in the bureaucracy, to teach the future princes the state administration, to employ the people and the army in the service of the royal authorities, and to seize the will of the enemies. Propaganda messages were spread by professionals in written, visual or verbal forms. The image of kings has always been reflected positively, the images of enemies have always been negatively reflected. Assyrian gods and kings were glorified, those who opposed royal politics were humiliated. Violence in all its forms has been legitimized, and kings often boasted of the violence they inflicted on their enemies. It is important in the Assyrian propaganda in that it gives the richest examples of Ancient Mesopotamia.

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