This paper addresses the contributions of four esteemed intellectuals (Mesut(d) Fani Bilgili, Fanizade Ali İlmi, Refik Halit(d) Karay and Tarık Mümtaz Yazganalp) to the fields of literature and thought during the period of their
exile in Hatay, based on the ideas and remarks on the responsibility of intellectuals of one of the great thinkers of the century, Noam Chomsky, in the context of the development of local media in Hatay. Throughout the history of civilization, the role of independent minds has always been important in the transformation of communities. Even though they were in exile, those four scholars fulfilled their historic responsibilities and transferred their intellectual knowledge unimpeded to the local press and the fields of literature and education, first in the district of Iskenderun and then in Hatay.