''Dergâh'' (Ottoman Turkish: ''Dervish lodge'') was a

literary magazine A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...

which was published during the final days of the

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from 1921 and 1922. This period witnessed the

occupation of Istanbul The occupation of Istanbul ( tr, İstanbul'un İşgali; 12 November 1918 – 4 October 1923), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, by British, French, Italian, and Greek forces, took place in accordance with the Armistice of Mudros, which ended O ...

by the Western forces and also, the Independence War.

History and profile

''Dergâh'' was started in Istanbul in 1921 by

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and Ahmed Haşim. The former also served as the

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of the magazine. The first issue appeared on 15 April 1921, one month after the Allied forces declared the occupation of Istanbul. Major contributors of the magazine included Hasan Ali Yücel and Abdülhak Şinasi who were adherents of the

symbolist poetry Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, a leading Turkish novelist, started his literary career in ''Dergâh''. The following writers and journalists also contributed to the magazine:

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 ...

, Nurullah Ataç, Falih Rıfkı Atay,

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Ziya Gökalp Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("cel ...

and

Hilmi Ziya Ülken Hilmi Ziya Ülken (1901–1974) was a Turkish scholar and writer who had an influential role in the development of sociological and philosophical views in Turkey. In addition to his scientific work, he produced literary work, including poems. Ea ...

. Future politician Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu started his journalistic career in the magazine. All these writers were supporters of the Independence War due to which some issues of the magazine were censored by the Allied administration. They also supported the ideas of the French philosopher

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, and the magazine became the mouthpiece for his Turkish followers. It was among the early Turkish periodicals which covered articles on

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. ''Dergâh'' folded on 5 January 1922 after producing a total of forty-two issues.

References

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