A review and index on the Istanbul Community Center Culture Magazine (1943 – 1946)

It appears that 'Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi' had published various magazines during 1940s in Turkey throught the institutions affiliated to the party. The most notable of these magazines was one called 'Ülkü,' which was published bu the Central Office of Community Centers. Among the other magazines published in different provinces, there was another magazine which was deemed as significant as 'Ülkü.' It was called 'Istanbul Culture' and it was published by Istanbul's Eminönü Community Center. The Istanbul Culture magazine, which was published in a province which had a vivid cultural and artistic life during a rippled conjuncture like the Second World War, provides some significiant opportunities in terms of grasping the spirit of the era. Another aspect of the aforesaid magazine is the fact the art and literature section of this magazine was chaired by Mehmet Kaplan. Therefore, we thought that the Istanbul Culture magazine, which allows us to monitor not only the transition a multiparty system in Turkey but also the various types of evoluations experienced in literature and artistic life, can be examined as a master's thesis. Besides the detailed review we performed on this magazine, we prepared the index of all kinds of newsletters and the literary texts such as poems and stories. Following these indices based on chronology, author and literary genre, we deemed it necessary to create a book from the samples we picked among the contemporary Turkish Literature examples and relevant texts published in this magazine. Keywords: Magazines published by Community Center, Istanbul, essay, review, analysis.