Editor-in-chief | Hüsamettin Bozok |
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Categories | Literary magazine |
Frequency |
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Publisher | Yeditepe Publications |
Founder | Hüsamettin Bozok |
Founded | 1950 |
First issue | 1 April 1950 |
Final issue | 1984 |
Country | Turkey |
Based in | 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.[1] It was one of the opposition media outlets in the 1950s.[2]
The first issue of Yeditepe appeared in Istanbul on 1 April 1950.[1] The founder and editor of the magazine was Hüsamettin Bozok.[3] It was established based on the literary tradition of the Varlık magazine, but it focused more on the social responsibilities of literature.[4]
Yeditepe was published by a company with the same name which was also owned by Bozok.[3] 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.[1] The magazine began to appear on a biweekly basis from 1952.[1]
Major contributors of Yeditepe included Orhan Kemal, Yaşar Kemal, Samim Kocagöz, Melih Cevdet Anday, Oktay Rifat, Edip Cansever, and Adnan Özyalçıner.[1] Cemal Süreya's poem Gül (Turkish: Rose) written in a new poetic style was first featured in the magazine.[2] 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.[1] In Yeditepe various short stories were published.[1] 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.[3] The magazine permanently folded due to financial problems in 1984 after producing a total of 439 issues.[3]
A poetry prize with the same name was awarded by Hüsamettin Bozok between 1955 and 1967 and between 1976 and 1984.[3]