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Yön Polte Songs
''Yön'' (Turkish: ''Direction'') was a weekly Turkish political magazine published between 1961 and 1967. It was a Kemalist and leftist magazine. In fact, ''Yön'' was more than a publication in that its contributors represented a political movement in the 1960s, Yön movement, which was a successor of another leftist-Kemalist movement of the 1930s, Kadro movement, which appeared also around a publication, ''Kadro''. History and profile ''Yön'' started publication in Ankara on 20 December 1961. The founders included Doğan Avcıoğlu, Mümtaz Soysal, İlhan Selçuk and İlhami Soysal. Avcıoğlu was also the editor of ''Yön''. The first issue of the magazine contained a declaration of 500 Turkish intellectuals about a formal doctrine of socialism. ''Yön'' was an organ of Doğan Avcıoğlu's movement, namely direction-revolution movement, which is one of the most influential leftist movements between 1961 and 1971 in Turkey. In line with this function the magazine had a socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doğan Avcıoğlu
Doğan Avcıoğlu (1926–1983) was a Turkish writer, journalist and politician. Biography Doğan Avcıoğlu was born in Mustafakemalpaşa ilçe (district) of Bursa Province in 1926. After completing high school, he traveled to France for studies in political science and economy. He returned to Turkey in 1955. In 1956, he began writing in political magazines such as '' Akis''. He joined the Republican People's Party (CHP). He served in the research bureau of the party and wrote in the party paper ''Ulus''. In 1961, he served in the Constituent Assembly of Turkey as a CHP representative. Between 1963 and 1965, he served in the research bureau of TÜRK-İŞ, the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions. Between 1968 and 1969, he was a member of the consultative committee of CHP. Following the 1971 Turkish military memorandum, he was arrested, but was acquitted. He died on 4 November 1983 in İstanbul from stomach cancer. He was buried in Büyükada. Periodicals Between 1961 and 1967 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Eastern Studies (journal)
''Middle Eastern Studies'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of Middle-Eastern studies. It was established in 1964 by Elie Kedourie, who served as editor-in-chief from 1964–1992, and is published by Taylor & Francis. From 1992–2016, the journal was edited by Sylvia Kedourie. It is now co-edited by Saul Kelly and Helen Kedourie. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2016 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ... of 0.443. References External links * {{Authority control Area studies journals Bimonthly journals Taylor & Francis academic journals Publications established in 1964 English-language journals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihri Belli
Mihri Belli (December 1915 – 16 August 2011) was a prominent leader of the socialist movement in Turkey. He fought for the communist side in the Greek Civil War. Belli was repeatedly prosecuted and sentenced to prison for his political views, and was altogether imprisoned for 11 years, and forced into exile for another 18. Belli wrote several influential books on the Turkish left and was, for many years, a source of inspiration for leftist Turkish youths. Early life Belli was born in 1916 in Silivri, then in the Ottoman Empire, to Mahmut Hayrettin Bey, later a prominent leader of the Turkish War of Independence in Urfa. He was educated at Robert College in Istanbul, and in 1936 went on to study economics at the University of Mississippi in the United States. There he was introduced to Marxist thought and revolutionary action. He took part in the activities of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Return to Turkey Belli returned to Turkey in 1940, where he joined the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazım Hikmet , monarch of the Hyderabad State
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A nazim is the coordinator of a city or town in Pakistan. Nazim or variant spellings may also refer to: *Nazim (given name), including a list of people with the given name *Nazim (surname), including a list of people with the surname See also *Nazimabad, a suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan *Nizam of Hyderabad The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurdish Issue
Kurdish nationalism (, ) is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of an independent Kurdistan from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Early Kurdish nationalism had its roots in the Ottoman Empire, within which Kurds were a significant ethnic group. With the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, its Kurdish-majority territories were divided between the newly formed states of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria, making Kurds a significant ethnic minority in each state. Kurdish nationalist movements have long been suppressed by Turkey and the Arab-majority states of Iraq, Iran and Syria, all of whom fear a potential independent Kurdistan. Since the 1970s, Iraqi Kurds have pursued the goal of greater autonomy and even outright independence against the Iraqi nationalist Ba'ath Party regimes, which responded with brutal repression, including the massacre of 182,000 Kurds in the Anfal genocide. The Kurdish–Turkish conflict, where Kurdish arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turhan Selçuk
Turhan Selçuk (30 July 1922 – March 11, 2010) was a Turkish cartoonist. Biography Born in Muğla, Milas Selçuk was a prolific cartoonist. He is considered to be one of the few cartoonists in Turkey, who paved the way for the current Turkish cartoon scene. Selçuk was the founder of the Turkish Cartoonists Association together with Semih Balcıoğlu and Ferit Öngören. İlhan Selçuk was his brother. He died in Istanbul. Awards and honors * First Prize for caricature in the Journalism Achievement Award Competition organised by the Association of Journalism in Turkey (1955) * Golden Palm at the International Festival of the Humor of Bordighera (Salone Internazionale dell'Umorismo di Bordighera) (1956) * Aero Club Silver Cup International Festival of the Humor of Bordighera (Salone Internazionale dell'Umorismo di Bordighera) (1956) * Silver Date at the International Festival of the Humor of Bordighera (Salone Internazionale dell'Umorismo di Bordighera) (1962) * Ippocampo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. The university emphasizes research and education in engineering and natural sciences, offering about 41 undergraduate programs within 5 faculties, 105 masters and 70 doctorate programs within 5 graduate schools. The main campus of METU spans an area of , comprising, in addition to academic and auxiliary facilities, a forest area of , and the natural Lake Eymir. METU has more than 120,000 alumni worldwide. The official language of instruction at METU is English language, English. Over one third of the 1,000 highest scoring students in the Education in Turkey, national university entrance examination choose to enroll in METU; and most of its departments accept the top 0.1% of the nearly 3 million applicants. METU had the greatest share in nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemal Kurdaş
Kemal may refer to: ;People * Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a Turkish politician and the first president of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ... * Kemal (name), a common Turkish name ;Places * Kemalpaşa, İzmir Province, Turkey * Mustafakemalpaşa, Bursa Province, Turkey ;See also *"Kemal", a Greek song by Manos Hatzidakis and Nikos Gatsos {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
İdris Küçükömer
İdris Küçükömer (1 June 1925 – 5 July 1987) was a Turkish academic, philosopher and economist whose views has been influential in Turkish politics. He developed an alternative interpretation of Kemalism from the mid-1960s to his death. Early life and education Küçükömer was born in Giresun on 1 June 1925. He hailed from a middle-class labor family. His father died in 1934. He graduated from Trabzon High School. In 1951 he obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from Istanbul University where he also received a PhD in 1955. His PhD thesis was entitled ''Modern Kapital Teorilerinde Münakaşalı Bazı Problemler'' (Turkish: Some Problematic Topics in the Modern Capital Theories). He served in the Turkish army for twenty-two months in the period 1946–1947 in Gelibolu. Career Following his graduation Küçükömer joined his alma mater, Istanbul University, as a faculty member. In 1958 he became an associate professor in the same institution following the completion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Şevket Süreyya Aydemir
Şevket Süreyya Aydemir (1897–25 March 1976) was a Turkish writer, intellectual, economist, historian, and one of the founders, publisher and a key theorist of ''Kadro'' ("Cadre"). ''Kadro'' was an influential left-wing political journal published in Turkey from 1932 to 1934. He was educated and became familiar with Marxism at Moscow University where he studied economics, and worked as a teacher in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Russia. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Turkey, and attended a Soviet-sponsored Congress for the Peoples of the East in Baku on the Turkish party's behalf. Upon his return to Turkey from the Soviet Union, he wrote for '' Aydınlık'' magazine. The magazine was shut down in 1925 for political reasons, and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Ankara Independence Court for the views he had expounded in the magazine. He was released after a year and a half. He was tried again in 1927 but this time w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadun Aren
Sadun Aren (19 March 1922 – 8 March 2008) was a Turkish academic and politician. He was one of the cofounders of Workers' Party of Turkey and of the leading figures of socialist movement in Turkey. Early life and education Aren was born on 19 March 1922 in Erzurum. His father was a civil servant, and his mother was a housewife who died when Sadun Aren was a child. Due to his father's frequent appointments he completed his primary and secondary education in different cities, including Eskişehir, Ankara and Istanbul. He graduated from Ankara University's Faculty of Political Science in 1944. He held a PhD which he received from the same university. Career and arrests Following the completion of his PhD studies Aren began to work at the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University, as an associate professor and taught courses in sociology. In 1951 he was sent to Geneva to work at the United Nations' European Economic Commission. However, he resigned from the office and began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niyazi Berkes
Niyazi Berkes (21 October 1908 – 18 December 1988) was a Turkish Cypriot sociologist. Early life and education Berkes was born in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, on 21 September 1908, shortly after the Young Turk Revolution in Turkey.İletişim Publishing. “The biography of Niyazi Berkes” Retrieved 9 November 2011, (In Turkish)Feroz Berkes, The Development of Secularism in Turkey, p.xv. He started his secondary education in Nicosia. During his education, he later, went to Istanbul and graduated from Istanbul Erkek Lisesi (Istanbul Lycée, or Istanbul Boys' High School) in 1928.Berkes, Türkiye'de Çağdaşlaşma, p.1. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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