Yön

Yön
Editor-in-chief Doğan Avcıoğlu
Categories Political magazine
Frequency Weekly
Year founded 1961
First issue 20 December 1961
Final issue 30 June 1967
Country Turkey
Based in Ankara
Language Turkish

Yön (meaning Direction in English) was a weekly Turkish political magazine published between 1961 and 1967.[1][2] It was a Kemalist and leftist magazine.[3]

History and profile

Yön started publication in Ankara on 20 December 1961.[3][4] The founders included Doğan Avcıoğlu, Mümtaz Soysal, İlhan Selçuk and İlhami Soysal.[4] Its editor was Doğan Avcıoğlu.[4] Yön had a social democratic and Kemalist stance.[5] The magazine supported for antifeudalism, and étatist and Third Worldist approach.[5] It attempted to establish a national front to achieve national democracy in Turkey.[5] In addition to political writings, the magazine also covered artistic work,[2] including a poem of Nazım Hikmet (published in 1964) whose works had not been published in the country for a long time.[6]

Immediately after its foundation the magazine enjoyed a circulation level of 30,000 copies.[5] However it decreased to between 4,000 and 5,000 copies in 1965.[4] The magazine ceased publication in 1967 and the last issue was published on 30 June 1967.[4] The magazine was followed by Ant and Türk Solu, two political magazines.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Sinan Ciddi (13 January 2009). Kemalism in Turkish Politics: The Republican People's Party, Secularism and Nationalism. Routledge. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-134-02559-6. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 Gholamali Haddad Adel; Mohammad Jafar Elmi; Hassan Taromi-Rad (31 August 2012). Periodicals of the Muslim World: An Entry from Encyclopedia of the World of Islam. EWI Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-908433-10-7. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 Fahrettin Altun (2010). "Discourse of Left-Kemalists in Turkey: Case of the Journal, Yön, 1961–1967" (PDF). Middle East Critique. 19 (2). Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Özgür Mutlu Ulus (8 December 2010). The Army and the Radical Left in Turkey: Military Coups, Socialist Revolution and Kemalism. I.B.Tauris. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-85771-880-8. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Ahmet Samim (1981). "The Tragedy of the Turkish Left - New Left Review" (PDF). New Left Review. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Sina Aksin (1 February 2007). Turkey, from Empire to Revolutionary Republic: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to Present. NYU Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-8147-0722-7. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
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