Büyük Doğu (magazine)

Büyük Doğu was first published as a daily newspaper on 17 September 1943 with the aim of being a newspaper for Muslim Turkish people who were committed to the God and a new worldview.[1] The founder was a significant right-wing and conservative figure, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek.[1] The contributors of Büyük Doğu included many leading journalists and writers: Ziya Şakir, Mahmut Yesari, Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Nurullah Berk, Hilmi Ziya Ülken, Mehmet Faruk Gürtunca, Suphi Nuri İleri, Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın, Nizamettin Nazif, Nejat Muhsinoğlu, Peyami Safa, Şükrü Baban, Burhan Belge, Kazım Nami, Salih Zeki, Tevfik Fikret, Özdemir Asaf, İskender Fikret, Kenan Harun, Salah Birsel, Mehmet Turhan and Sait Faik.[1] Islamist journalist Cevat Rıfat Atilhan also wrote for the magazine in addition to Sebilürreşad, another conservative magazine.[2] Although such a wide variety of writers published articles in Büyük Doğu, most of the articles were written by Necip Fazıl Kısakürek who employed numerous pseudonyms.[1]

On 2 November 1943 Büyük Doğu newspaper was banned due to the articles which were written by Necip Fazıl Kısakürek under different pseudonyms.[3] In 1945 Büyük Doğu was restarted as a weekly magazine.[3] In addition to political content the magazine featured several examples of the symbolist poems which were formalized in a former literary magazine Dergâh.[4]

Büyük Doğu was banned and ceased publication on 5 June 1978 after publishing 512 issues.[1][5] During its lifetime it was shut down at least thirteen times.[2]