Dergâh

Dergâh was started in Istanbul in 1921 by Yahya Kemal and Ahmed Haşim.^[1] The former also served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine.^[2] Its first issue appeared on 15 April 1921, one month after the Allied forces declared the occupation of Istanbul.^[3] The magazine came out biweekly.^[4]

Major contributors of Dergâh included Hasan Ali Yücel and Abdülhak Şinasi who were adherents of the symbolist poetry.^[2] Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, a leading Turkish novelist, started his literary career in Dergâh.^[2][5] The following writers and journalists also contributed to the magazine: Halide Edib Adıvar, Nurullah Ataç, Falih Rıfkı Atay, Fuat Köprülü, Ziya Gökalp^[3] and Hilmi Ziya Ülken.^[6] Future politician Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu started his journalistic career in the magazine.^[7][8] All these writers were supporters of the Independence War due to which some issues of the magazine were censored by the Allied administration.^[3][9] They also supported the ideas of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and the magazine became the mouthpiece for his Turkish followers.^[10][11]

Dergâh acted as an intellectual platform which reinforced the traditionalist conservatism.^[12] It was among the early Turkish periodicals which covered articles on folklore.^[13]

Dergâh folded on 5 January 1922 after producing a total of forty-two issues.^[3][14]