Genç Kalemler
Categories | Literary magazine Cultural magazine Political magazine |
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Founder | Ziya Gökalp Ömer Seyfettin Ali Canip Yöntem |
Year founded | 1911 |
First issue | 11 April 1911 |
Final issue | 1912 |
Country | Ottoman Empire |
Based in | Thessaloniki |
Language | Ottoman Turkish |
Genç Kalemler (meaning Young Pens in English) was an Ottoman literary and cultural magazine which was one of the earliest nationalist publications in the Ottoman Empire.[1] Murat Belge describes it as a pan-Turkist publication.[2] It was published between April 1911 and October 1912 in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire, and was the first Ottoman publication which called for having a national language.
History and profile[]
Genç Kalemler was first published on 11 April 1911 as a successor of Hüsn ve Şiir, a literary magazine.[2] The founders were the members of a literary group with the same name who were at the same time members of a group called the exponents of new language: Ziya Gökalp, Ömer Seyfettin and Ali Canip Yöntem.[1] The major tenet of the magazine was to implement the language reform to simplify the Ottoman language to improve the literacy and to avoid the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.[1] Another major view of the magazine contributors was that the Ottoman language could not be a national language due to its artificial nature and that Istanbul Turkish should be adopted as the official language of the Empire.[1] Ziya Gökalp's poem entitled Turan was first published in the magazine.[3] Genç Kalemler published a total of thirty-three issues before ceasing publication in October 1912.[2]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Ayşegül Aydıngün; İsmail Aydıngün (2004). "The Role of Language in the Formation of the National Identity and Turkishness". Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 10 (3): 417–420. doi:10.1080/13537110490518264. hdl:11511/40574.
- ^ a b c Murat Belge (2010). "Genç Kalemler and Turkish Nationalism". In Celia Kerslake; Kerem Ökten; Philip Robins (eds.). Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 27–37. doi:10.1057/9780230277397_3. ISBN 978-1-349-31326-6.
- ^ M. Vedat Gürbüz (2003). "Genesis of Turkish Nationalism". Belleten. 67 (249): 503. ISSN 0041-4255.
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