This article examines the establishment, organizational structure, principal areas of activity, and the role of the Nachrichtenstelle fur den Orient (News Bureau for the East), founded under the German Foreign Office during the First World War, within the framework of Germany's Eastern policy. It analyzes the Bureau's propaganda activities based on Pan-Islamic ideas and its efforts to influence the Ottoman Empire, the Muslims of the Russian Empire, Turkestan, and the Emirate of Bukhara. Particular attention is paid to the methods of information warfare employed by the Bureau, as well as the mechanisms of political influence implemented through multilingual publications, newspapers, journals, and other propaganda materials. The study also evaluates the Bureau's contribution to Germany's strategic objectives in the East and its role in shaping political and ideological influence during the First World War.

Nachrichtenstelle fur den Orient, German Empire, First World War, Eastern policy, Pan-Islamism, propaganda, information warfare, Max von Oppenheim, Ottoman Empire, Turkestan, Emirate of Bukhara, Muslims of the Russian Empire, jihad propaganda, press, information policy.

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