Press has always been in the spotlight since it first came into existence, and authorities have kept a close eye on such a medium with the ability to have a profound impact on the views of the general public. The lack of sufficient information about the breadth of its sphere of influence has caused the relationship between the press and the government to experience many ruptures in the historical process. While there is no linear relationship on the influence of governments on the press, the ruling authorities’ impact on it has somewhat weakened in its favor during the historical process. The rise of the press in the Ottoman Empire was somewhat slower when compared to its contemporary counterparts in Europe. When the first newspapers appeared in Europe, the Turks had not yet opened a printing house in the Ottoman Empire. Thus, the time in which European countries experienced freedom to an ever-expanding degree in terms of press, coincided with an era of oppression followed by a concentrated period of censorship on the press in the Ottoman Empire. While the press lost its momentum under the reign of Abdulhamid II due to his sense of rule, Turkish publications in Europe became the driving force between the press in Turkey. However, it would not suffice for us to say that the press was altogether helpless during the Sultan’s domestic reign. Above all things, it enabled the press history to be maintained and passed onto later generations. Additionally, members of the press came up with their own unique solutions to thrive in an environment in which the amount of censorship that was enforced on the press was pushed to its utmost possible limit, and when journalism first started to be considered as a real profession. The press of time managed to keep their sales on a reasonable level without ever straying close to political matters, and continued their operations while even though they were condemned as tools of the government as they were funded by them. İkdâm, a product of the same ambience as its contemporary counterparts, had its fair share. On that sense, it has the data to shed light on the relationship between the press and the government in the era specified above.