The Ottoman women's

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

''Demet'' (Ottoman Turkish: "floral bouquet") was founded in 1908 in

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, two weeks after the proclamation of the

Second Constitutional Era The Second Constitutional Era ( ota, ایكنجی مشروطیت دورى; tr, İkinci Meşrutiyet Devri) was the period of restored parliamentary rule in the Ottoman Empire between the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and the 1920 dissolution of the G ...

. Altogether, seven issues exist, they were published once a week.

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and publisher was Celāl Sāhir (1883–1935). Even though the magazine was aimed at women, the editorial team of the first two issues was made up exclusively of men, such as

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(1873–1936),

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(1874–1957), and Enis Avni (1886-1958). Among the female writers were later

Halide Edib Adıvar Halide Edib Adıvar ( ota, خالده اديب , sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English; 11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish novelist, teacher, ultranationalist and feminist intellectual. She was best known for her novels critici ...

(1884–1964), Nigar Bint-i Osman (1862–1918), and İsmet Hakkı Hanım. In addition to literary and scientific articles, what interested the female readers most were political publications. Besides '' Kadınlar Dünyası'' (1913–1921), '' Mehâsin'' (1908–1909), and ''Kadın'' (1908–1910),Demet is considered one of the first and most important women's magazines in the Second Constitutional Era.

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