Yön

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]

Yön
Editor-in-chiefDoğan Avcıoğlu
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Year founded1961
First issue20 December 1961
Final issue30 June 1967
CountryTurkey
Based inAnkara
LanguageTurkish

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 was an organ of Doğan Avcıoğlu's movement, direction-revolution movement, which is one of the most influential leftist movements between 1961 and 1971 in Turkey.[5] In line with this function the magazine had a social democratic and Kemalist stance.[6] The magazine supported antifeudalism and Third Worldist approach.[6] It attempted to establish a national front to achieve national democracy in Turkey.[6]

In addition to political writings, Yön 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.[7]

Immediately after its foundation Yön enjoyed a circulation level of 30,000 copies.[6] However it decreased to between 4,000 and 5,000 copies in 1965.[4] The magazine ceased publication in 1967,[8] and the last issue was published on 30 June 1967.[4][5] During its lifetime Yön produced a total of 222 issues.[8]

The closure of the magazine, in fact, reflected a significant change in the ideology of the direction-revolution movement.[5] Yön was followed by Ant and Türk Solu, two political magazines.[6]

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.
  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.
  3. Fahrettin Altun (2010). "Discourse of Left-Kemalists in Turkey: Case of the Journal, Yön, 1961–1967" (PDF). Middle East Critique. 19 (2).
  4. 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.
  5. Şenol Durgun (2015). "Left-Wing Politics in Turkey: Its Development and Problems". Arab Studies Quarterly. 37 (1): 9–32. doi:10.13169/arabstudquar.37.1.0009. JSTOR 10.13169/arabstudquar.37.1.0009.
  6. Ahmet Samim (1981). "The Tragedy of the Turkish Left - New Left Review" (PDF). New Left Review. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  7. 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.
  8. Tülay Gencer (April 2020). "Yön Dergisinde Fabiancılığın İzleri". SÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (in Turkish). 49. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
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