Süs (magazine)

Süs
Editor-in-chiefMehmet Rauf
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherTanin publishing house
First issue16 June 1923
Final issue26 July 1924
CountryTurkey
Based inIstanbul
LanguageTurkish

Süs (Turkish: Ornament) was an illustrated weekly women's magazine published in Istanbul, Turkey, for one year between 1923 and 1924. Its subtitle was Haftalık Edebi Hanım Mecmuası (Turkish: Weekly Literary Women's Magazine).[1] It was known for being the first women's magazine of the newly established Republic of Turkey.

History and profile

Süs was first published in Istanbul on 16 June 1923.[2][3] The magazine was edited by Mehmed Rauf and published by the Tanin publishing house on a weekly basis.[3] Hüseyin Remzi was its managing director.[2]

Süs contained 16 pages and featured articles on women-related topics printed in the Ottoman Turkish.[1] Each week the magazine reported news about worldwide women's movement and about fashion.[1][4] Abdullah Cevdet published an article in 1924 on family life in Britain and in other European countries emphasizing their attitudes towards childhood.[5] The magazine also serialized novels written by Mehmet Rauf and others.[2] The cover designs of the magazine were very attractive. The cover of the first issue featured Halide Edip Adıvar.[1] In the following issues well-known Turkish women were featured in the cover of the magazine, including Latife Hanım, spouse of Mustafa Kemal.[1]

Various notable writers contributed to Süs, including Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Musahipzade Celal, Suat Derviş, Ahmet Haşim, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Cenâb Şehâbeddîn, Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Hamdullah Suphi Tanrıöver, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Peyami Safa, Ruşen Eşref, Süleyman Nazif, Yusuf Ziya Ortaç, Faik Ali Ozansoy, Celal Sahir Erozan, Selahaddin Enis, and Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın.[3]

Süs folded after the publication of the issue dated 26 July 1924.[3] It produced a total of fifty-five issues during its run.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Özgün Uçar (October 2023). "Cumhuriyetin öncü kadın dergisi". Tarih (in Turkish). Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Funda Arslan Bilgin; Özge Seda Uğraş (2023). "Modern Kadın İmajı Üzerine bir İnceleme: Süs Dergisi Örneği". Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (in Turkish). 33 (3): 1438–1439. doi:10.18069/firatsbed.1294473.
  3. ^ a b c d "Süs, No. 25, 1 Aralık 1923 (Kanun-ı Evvel, 1339)" (in Turkish). Koç University Digital Collections. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  4. ^ Fatma Türe (2013). "The New Woman in Erotic Popular Literature of 1920s Istanbul". In Duygu Köksal; Anastasia Falierou (eds.). A Social History of Late Ottoman Women. New Perspectives. Vol. 54. Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 175. doi:10.1163/9789004255258_010. ISBN 978-90-04-25525-8.
  5. ^ Nazan Çiçek (2016). "The Interplay between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines, 1924–1950". In Benjamin C. Fortna (ed.). Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After. Politics, Society and Economy. Vol. 59. Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 35. doi:10.1163/9789004305809_003. ISBN 978-90-04-30580-9.