The Moniteur ottoman was a newspaper written in French and first published in 1831 on the order of Mahmud II.
[1] It was the first official gazette of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Alexandre Blacque at the expense of the Sublime Porte.
[1] Its name perhaps referred to the French newspaper Le Moniteur Universel.
[3] Takvim-i vekayi was published a few months later, intended as a translation of the Moniteur into Ottoman Turkish.
It was apparently inspired by Muhammad Ali's Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya, published in Egypt since 1828.