Poetry in Çınaraltı Magazine

Çınaraltı, which was published between 1941 and 1948, became one of the strong castles of nationalism. It was determined that the analyzes were not made as a holistic theory about poetry. In order to compensate for this deficiency, there was also the artistic understanding of the period, along with the poems and poets published in the magazine. Çınaraltı, one of the weekly magazines that best reflects the period in terms of Turkist ideas and artistic understanding, did not remain indifferent to political and social events, but also included many materials about literary and cultural life. The magazine has published especially to strengthen national cultural awareness, increase public awareness and serve Turkishness. The journal was published in a total of 161 issues in three periods. The first two periods were directed by Orhan Seyfi Orhon, who is frequently mentioned in magazine publishing. In the third period, one of the editors-in-chief, Yusuf Ziya Ortaç, took over the management of the magazine. Although there were formal changes in the regular magazine for three periods, there was no significant change in content. It has been understood that the magazine, which maintains its Turkist-nationalist attitude in all published issues, acts in accordance with its publishing policy. Although Çınaraltı was quite oppressive in its understanding of continuing its tradition, it did not oppose innovation, and various topics were discussed with the conditions of being national. The magazine publication policy agreement criticized the Garip understanding of poetry and provided support to the members of the group known today as Hisar communities to publish their first poems.