Yeditepe (magazine)

The first issue of Yeditepe appeared in Istanbul on 1 April 1950.^[1] The founder and editor of the magazine was Hüsamettin Bozok.^[4] It was established based on the literary tradition of the Varlık magazine, but it focused more on the social side of literature.^[5]

Yeditepe was published by a company with the same name which was also owned by Bozok.^[3][4] 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.^[6] The magazine also reported news about art galleries and exhibitions.^[7]

Yeditepe ceased publication in 1974 and was restarted in 1979.^[4] The magazine permanently folded due to financial problems in 1984 after producing a total of 439 issues.^[4]

A poetry prize with the same name was awarded by Hüsamettin Bozok between 1955 and 1967 and between 1976 and 1984.^[4]