Kadın Gazetesi

Kadın Gazetesi
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
First issue1 March 1947
Final issue1979
CountryTurkey
Based inIstanbul
LanguageTurkish

Kadın Gazetesi (Turkish: Woman's Newspaper) was a weekly publication targeting women besed in Istanbul, Turkey, between 1947 and 1979. It was started as a weekly newspaper, but became a weekly magazine from 1962. It adopted a Kemalist and feminist political stance. It is one of the earliest women's publications with a clear ideology in Turkey.[1]

History and profile

Kadın Gazetesi was established in 1947 as a weekly newspaper.[2] Its first issue appeared on 1 March that year.[3] The founders included İffet Halim Oruz, Emel Gürler, Münevver Ayaşlı, Fürüzan Eksat, Nimet Selen and F. Elbi.[4] İffet Halim Oruz also edited the paper which came out on Saturdays until 18 August 1947 when it began to appear on Mondays.[3] From 13 May 1952 it was published on Thursdays.[3] The paper was headquartered in Istanbul.[5] Kadın Gazetesi was reformatted as a weekly magazine, and its first issue with this format appeared on 10 March 1962.[3]

Kadın Gazetesi stated its goal in the first issue as follows: "We publish in order to serve our women’s thoughts, views, opinions, feelings, and wishes."[1] It aimed at informing women about various topics such as politics, economy and social issues.[3] It supported the ideology of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[2] The weekly advocated the view that empowering women is equal to the development of the country.[2] In line with this view, it featured articles in 1949 on the women's role in the Indian and Pakistani freedom movements.[6]

Its contributors were educated and urban middle-class women, and the paper addressed women from the same social class.[1] Major contributors of Kadın Gazetesi included Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Hasene Ilgaz, Perihan Çambel, Cahide Üçok, Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Makbule Diblan, Lamia Onat, Kazım Nami Duru, Pakize İzzet Tarzi, Melahat Özgü, and Mualla Anıl.[3]

The magazine folded in 1979[2][3] after publishing a total of 1125 issues.[1][7]

Full issues of Kadın Gazetesi are archived in Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi (Turkish: Library of Women's Work) and Atatürk Kitaplığı (Turkish: Atatürk Library) in Istanbul.[4][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Stefan Hock (2014). ""This Subject Concerns the Mass Rather Than a Group": Debating Kemalism, Labor, and State Feminism during the Transition to a Multi-Party Republic in Turkey". Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. 1 (1–4): 193–195. doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.1.1-2.187.
  2. ^ a b c d Fatma Fulya Tepe (Spring 2017). "Turkish Mother Citizens and Their Homefront Duties: The Cold War Discourse of the "Türk Kadını" Magazine". Feminist Formations. 29 (1): 29. doi:10.1353/ff.2017.0002. S2CID 148650838.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Sezen Karabulut (30 May 2022). "Kadın Gazetesi". Atatürk Encyclopedia (in Turkish).
  4. ^ a b Laura Tocco (2014). "Civil Society in Turkey: A Reading of Kadin Gazetesi through a Gramscian Lens". In Kristina Kamp; et al. (eds.). Contemporary Turkey at a Glance. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Local and Translocal Dynamics. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. pp. 66–67. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-04916-4. ISBN 978-3-658-04916-4.
  5. ^ Umut Azak; Henk de Smaele (Fall 2016). "National and Transnational Dynamics of Women's Activism in Turkey in the 1950s and 1960s: The Story of the ICW Branch in Ankara". Journal of Women's History. 28 (3): 52. doi:10.1353/jowh.2016.0024. hdl:10067/1352940151162165141. S2CID 151526390.
  6. ^ Nicholas Danforth (2021). The Remaking of Republican Turkey Memory and Modernity since the Fall of the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 165. doi:10.1017/9781108973779. ISBN 9781108973779. S2CID 242353821.
  7. ^ a b "Süreli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu" (in Turkish). Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi. Retrieved 18 March 2023.