''Türk Yurdu'' is a monthly Turkish magazine that was first published on the 30 November 1911. It was an important magazine propagating

Pan-Turkism Pan-Turkism () or Turkism () is a political movement that emerged during the 1880s among Turkic intellectuals who lived in the Russian region of Kazan (Tatarstan), Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917), South Caucasus (modern-day Azerbaijan) and th ...

. It was founded by

Yusuf Akçura Yusuf Akçura (; ; 2 December 1876 – 11 March 1935) was a prominent Turkish politician, writer and ideologist of ethnic Tatar origin. He developed into a prominent ideologue and advocate of Pan-Turkism during the early republican period, whos ...

Ahmet Ağaoğlu Ahmet Ağaoğlu, also known as Ahmet Bey Ağaoğlu (; or Ahmet Akif Agaoglu (December 1869, Shusha – May 19, 1939, Istanbul) was a public and political figure of Azerbaijan and Turkey, thinker, publicist, educator, writer, Turkologist, and ...

, Ali Hüseynzade.

Ziya Gökalp Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (born Mehmed Ziya, 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 ...

said: "all Turkists... met and worked together in the ''Türk Yurdu'' and ''Türk Ocağı'' ambiance." The magazine was one of the early Turkish periodicals which featured articles on folklore. Yusuf Akçura was editor of the magazine from 1911 to 1917. From 11 April 1913, a weekly named ''Halka Doğru'' was published in Istanbul as a supplement to the ''Türk Yurdu''. ''Halka Doğru'' closed in April 1914, but its editor, Celal Sahir, began publishing another weekly supplement to the ''Türk Yurdu'', the ''Türk Sözü'', on 13 April 1914. In 1917, the management of the magazine passed to Celal Sahir, and in August 1918 ''Türk Yurdu'' was closed due to financial reasons. In 1924 it was relaunched in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

as an organ of the Turkish Hearths.

Notable authors

Notable writers for ''Türk Yurdu'' include: * Ömer Seyfeddin * Ahmet Aĝaoĝlu *

Mehmet Emin Yurdakul Mehmet Emin Yurdakul (13 May 1869 – 14 January 1944) was a Turkish people, Turkish Turkish nationalism, nationalist writer, poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term ' ...

* Ali Hüseyinzade * Mehmed Fuad Köprülü * Halide Edib *

İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu (28 February 1886 – 1 April 1978) was a Turkish academic, journalist and intellectual. Until 1933 he was a faculty member at Darulfunün, later Istanbul University, of which he was the first rector following the est ...

(contributed to the magazine between 1914 and 1920) *

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 ...

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