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Cem (magazine)

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Cem
Cem #19 (c. 1911)
Editor-in-ChiefRefik Halit Karay
CategoriesSatirical magazine
Political magazine
FounderCemil Cem
First issue10 November 1910
Final issue2 May 1929
Country
Based inIstanbul
LanguageTurkish
OCLC42946589

Cem (Ottoman Turkish: جم; French: Djem) was a weekly political satire magazine which was first published in the Ottoman Empire and then in Turkey. It was published between 1910 and 1912 and continued its publication in the period 1927–1929. The magazine was named after its founder, Cemil Cem.

History and profile

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Cem was established by Cemil Cem who was a caricaturist.[1] It was first published in November 1910.[1] The magazine was headquartered in Istanbul and had two editions, Ottoman Turkish and French.[1] Its subtitle was political, humoristic and satirical illustrated journal.[1] The founding editor-in-chief was Refik Halit Karay.[2][3] He also published articles in the magazine which attacked the policies of the Committee of Union and Progress.[2] The magazine ended publication in December 1912.[4]

Cem was restarted by Cemil Cem in 1927.[4] The same year he was put on trial for the publication of a caricature in the magazine[5] which folded in 1929.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d François Georgeon (July 2018). "Caricatures of women at the end of the Ottoman Empire". Clio. Women, Gender, History. 48 (2): 201–203. doi:10.4000/clio.15110. S2CID 193128914.
  2. ^ a b c Tobias Heinzelmann (2004). "The Hedgehog as Historian. Linguistic Archaism as a Means of Satire in the Early Work of Refik Halid Karay". In Horst Unbehaun (ed.). The Middle Eastern Press as a Forum for Literature. Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang. p. 195. ISBN 9783631399309.
  3. ^ "Cemil Cem'in evine plaket kondu". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 12 April 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b Syed Tanvir Wasti (2019). "Refik Halid Karay and his memoirs of exile". Middle Eastern Studies. 55 (3): 460. doi:10.1080/00263206.2018.1520102. S2CID 149756420.
  5. ^ Efrat E. Aviv (2013). "Cartoons in Turkey – From Abdülhamid to Erdoğan". Middle Eastern Studies. 49 (2): 227. doi:10.1080/00263206.2012.759101. S2CID 146388882.