''Hayat'' () was an

Ottoman Turkish language Ottoman Turkish (, ; ) was the standardized register (sociolinguistics), register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian language, Persian. It ...

weekly

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published 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 ( ...

and

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between 1926 and 1929 in a total of 146 issues. For the first 75 issues Mehmet Emin Erişirgil was the

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, then Nâfî Atuf Kansu and Faruk Nafız Çamlıbel assumed the office. The magazine described itself as "literary opinion magazine". The content of the magazine was particularly addressed to writers and

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

s and intended to encourage intellectuals to write innovatively. It also included a special edition for women. In addition to numerous articles, poems, stories, essays, reviews and biographies, various visual materials, photographs and illustrations of political, intellectual and literary personalities, art works and public events were further edited. Well-known authors, like Köprülüzade Mehmet Fuat, Fazıl Ahmet, Sevket Rado, Mustafa Şekip Tunç,

Mehmet İzzet Mehmed or Mehmet is the most common Turkish form of the Arabic male name Muhammad () (''Muhammed'' and ''Muhammet'' are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Origina ...

, Ahmet Refik and Necmettin Sadık, publicized their articles. The themes were varied and aimed at arousing the readers' interest in various ways, as the main article in the first issue emphasizes. The spectrum ranged from political topics such as

nationalism Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, I ...

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modernization Modernization theory or modernisation theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political institutions become increasingly liberal democratic and rationalist. The "classical" theories ...

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and

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and

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. In general, the magazine supported the legitimacy of the new government. For example, an article of 1929 promoting

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shows its connection to the ideology of the new

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. The adoption of the Latin alphabet instead of the Arabic alphabet began with the 90th issue in August 1928 and ended with the full use of Latin letters finally being introduced in the 95th issue in September 1928. Subscriptions to the journal were available both inside and outside the country.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayat 1926 establishments in Turkey 1929 disestablishments in Turkey Defunct literary magazines published in Turkey Magazines established in 1926 Magazines disestablished in 1929 Magazines published in Ankara Magazines published in Istanbul Turkish-language magazines Weekly magazines published in Turkey