Yeditepe (magazine) explained

Editor:Hüsamettin Bozok
Editor Title:Editor-in-chief
Category:Literary magazine
Publisher:Yeditepe Publications
Founder:Hüsamettin Bozok
Founded:1950
Firstdate:1 April 1950
Finaldate:1984
Country:Turkey
Based:Istanbul
Language:Turkish

Yeditepe (Turkish: Seven Hills) was a literary magazine which was published in Istanbul, Turkey, from 1950 to 1984 with a five-year interruption. Its title was a reference to both Istanbul and seven arts or traditional subdivision of the arts. It was one of the opposition media outlets in the 1950s[1] and also, an influential literary magazine during its run.[2]

History and profile

The first issue of Yeditepe appeared in Istanbul on 1 April 1950.[3] The founder and editor of the magazine was Hüsamettin Bozok. It was established based on the literary tradition of the Varlık magazine, but it focused more on the social side of literature.[4]

Yeditepe was published by a company with the same name which was also owned by Bozok.[2] It was started as a four-page biweekly literary journal, and from 1951 its page number was expanded, but its frequency was redesigned as a monthly.[3] The magazine began to appear on a biweekly basis from 1952.[3]

Major contributors of Yeditepe included Orhan Kemal, Yaşar Kemal, Samim Kocagöz, Melih Cevdet Anday, Oktay Rifat, Edip Cansever, and Adnan Özyalçıner.[3] Cemal Süreya's poem Gül (Turkish: Rose) written in a new poetic style was first featured in the magazine.[1] It was the only magazine which published poems of the Garip movement, also known as the First New Movement, and also of the Second New Movement.[3] In Yeditepe various short stories were published.[3] There were frequent articles on existentialism in the magazine between 1960 and 1970 when this philosophical approach was extremely popular in Turkey.[5] The magazine also reported news about art galleries and exhibitions.[6]

Yeditepe ceased publication in 1974 and was restarted in 1979.[7] The magazine permanently folded due to financial problems in 1984 after producing a total of 439 issues.[7]

A poetry prize with the same name was awarded by Hüsamettin Bozok between 1955 and 1967 and between 1976 and 1984.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Kenan Behzat Sharpe. Poetry, Rock 'n' Roll, and Cinema in Turkey's 1960s. 2021. Turkish Historical Review. 12. 2–3. 10.1163/18775462-bja10028. 358,361. 245625176.
  2. Book: Cangül Örnek. Çağdaş Üngör. 153. Cangül Örnek. Turkey in the Cold War. Ideology and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326690_7. 2013. 1st. 10.1057/9781137326690_7. ‘The Populist Effect’:Promotion and Reception of American Literature in Turkey in the 1950s. 978-1-137-32669-0. Palgrave Macmillan. London.
  3. Aslı Uçar. 1950'ler Türkiyesinde Edebiyat Dergiciliği: Poetikalar ve Politikalar. Bilkent University. 2007. . 66–71. tr. MA. 9798426846845.
  4. Kemal H. Karpat. Social Themes in Contemporary Turkish Literature: Part I. The Middle East Journal. 14. 1. 1960. 4323199. 38. Kemal Karpat.
  5. Book: Ayşenaz Cengiz. Alfred Betschart. Juliane Werner. Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism. 2020. Palgrave Macmillan. Cham. 978-3-030-38482-1. 233. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38482-1_12. 10.1007/978-3-030-38482-1_12. The Journey of Sartrean Existentialism into Turkey. 219100035.
  6. Başak Önsal. 2006. Emergence of art galleries in Ankara: a case study of three pionerring galleries in the 1950s. Middle East Technical University. 78. Master of Science. 11511/16593.
  7. Web site: Hüsamettin Bozok. 1 January 2024 . Türk Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü. tr.