| Summary: | In this study, the Ottoman and Turk’s images in the Russian history textbooks has been examined. For this purpose, the ebook versions of Russian history textbooks over the web has been used. Russian History and General History textbooks from 5 to 11th grades in secondary education has been taken into consideration. The obtained data has been analyzed by descriptive analysis. In Russian History textbooks there are lots of information on Turks and Ottoman Empire. Especially about the Balkan Wars. The textbooks contains a variety of images, maps, and historical resources related to Turkish and Ottoman History. Some parts of Turkish history is presented in details. Due to historical evidence based narration that being used Russian history textbooks are usually written in objective manner. However, they contains some incorrect, exaggerated or intended to otherize information about Turks and Ottomans. Also some textbook visuals has been observed to arouse the other and enemy image
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