Trakya Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

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In the last two centuries, the Ottoman Empire entered a process of innovation and search, which was tried to be expressed with concepts such as progress, development, Westernization and modernization, in the face of modern Western culture and civilization in social and political terms. The last century of the Ottoman Empire, in which ways to adapt to the changing political and social conditions in the world and to survive without the collapse of a multinational state, continued to be sought, in terms of literary life. Safahat-ı Şiir ve Fikir, which is correct to be evaluated as a product of the search for sources for Turkish literature by the artists of the period since the Tanzimat, was published in three issues in 1914. The journal has often been mentioned together with the literary understanding known as “Nesl-i Ati”, “Yeni Nesil” or “Nayiler” in literary history; However, although the name of this very short-lived journal is mentioned in various research works, it has remained in a position where its name is familiar but its content is not fully known since it could not be promoted together with its general content and the literary atmosphere of the period. In fact, some articles contain incorrect information about how many issues the journal has. Changing this situation, promoting the magazine in general terms, bringing the names and works of some forgotten artists to light again include the main purposes of this study.