The Ottoman women's

magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

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

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, two weeks after the proclamation of the

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. 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

Mehmet Akif Ersoy Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere literary minds of his time, Ersoy is noted for h ...

(1873–1936),

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

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(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 ''Women's World'' () was a women's magazine that was published in Turkey from 4 April 1913, after the Balkan Wars, until 1921. The founder of the magazine was Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek. It was published by women writers in the Ottoman Society ...

'' (1913–1921), ''

Mehâsin ''Mehâsin'' (Ottoman Turkish: ''Virtues'') was a monthly women's magazine which was published in the Ottoman Empire between 1908 and 1909. It was one of the publications started in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution and was subtitled as ...

'' (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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