Dergâh
{{Short description|Literary magazine in the Ottoman Empire (1921-1922)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}
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| editor = Yahya Kemal
| editor_title = Editor-in-chief
| frequency = Biweekly
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| category = Literary magazine
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| founder = {{ubl|Yahya Kemal|Ahmed Haşim}}
| founded = 1921
| firstdate = 15 April 1921
| finaldate = 5 January 1922
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| country = Ottoman Empire
| based = Istanbul
| language = Ottoman Turkish
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Dergâh ({{langx|tr|Dervish lodge}}) was a conservative literary magazine which was published during the final days of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul from 1921 to 1922. This period witnessed the occupation of Istanbul by the Western forces and also, the Turkish Independence War.
History and profile
Dergâh was started in Istanbul in 1921 by Yahya Kemal and Ahmed Haşim.{{cite journal|author=Fikret Uslucan|title=Dergâh Mecmuası'nda bir imlâ tartışması|journal=Turkish Studies|date=Fall 2008|volume=3|issue=6|doi=10.7827/TurkishStudies.484|language=tr|doi-access=free}} The former also served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine. Its first issue appeared on 15 April 1921, one month after the Allied forces declared the occupation of Istanbul.{{cite journal
|author=Ekrem Karadişoğulları|title=Dergah mecmuası'nın Türk edebiyatı ile milli mücadeledeki yeri|journal=Atatürk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi|year=2005|volume=11|issue=27|doi=10.14222/Turkiyat1236|language=tr}} The magazine came out biweekly.{{cite journal|author=Emel Koç|title=Osmanlıdan Cumhuriyete Felsefe ve Fikir Dergileri|journal=Journal of International Social Research
|volume=12|issue=62|year=2019|doi=10.17719/jisr.2019.3099|page=817|language=tr|doi-access=free}}
Major contributors of Dergâh included Hasan Ali Yücel and Abdülhak Şinasi who were adherents of the symbolist poetry.{{cite journal|author=Adem Can|title=Dergâh'tan Büyük Doğu'ya ilk dönem Cumhuriyet Devri poetika muhitlerinde şiiri tarif denemeleri|journal=Turkish Studies|year=2011|volume=6|issue=1|pages=864,866,869-870|doi-access=free
|language=tr|doi=10.7827/TurkishStudies.1768}} Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, a leading Turkish novelist, started his literary career in Dergâh.{{cite journal|author=Özen Nergis Dolcerocca|title=Chronometrics in the Modern Metropolis: the City, the Past and Collective Memory in A.H. Tanpınar|date=December 2015|journal=MLN|volume=130|issue=5|page=1152|doi=10.1353/mln.2015.0074|s2cid=163875749}} The following writers and journalists also contributed to the magazine: Halide Edib Adıvar, Nurullah Ataç, Falih Rıfkı Atay, Fuat Köprülü, Ziya Gökalp and Hilmi Ziya Ülken.{{cite web|url=https://www.biyografya.com/biyografi/17762
|title=Hilmi Ziya Ülken|access-date=2 April 2023|publisher=Biyografya|language=tr}} Future politician Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu started his journalistic career in the magazine.{{cite thesis|author=Lütfi Düzdemir|title=Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu|url-status=dead
|url=https://acikbilim.yok.gov.tr/handle/20.500.12812/601169|location=Manisa Celal Bayar University|year=1996|language=tr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124194624/https://acikbilim.yok.gov.tr/handle/20.500.12812/601169|degree=MA|archive-date=24 January 2023}}{{cite encyclopedia|author=Firdes Temizgüney|title=Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu (1900-1978)|encyclopedia=Atatürk Ansiklopedisi
|url=https://ataturkansiklopedisi.gov.tr/bilgi/fevzi-lutfi-karaosmanoglu-1900-1978/|language=tr}} All these writers were supporters of the Independence War due to which some issues of the magazine were censored by the Allied administration.{{cite journal
|author=Nazım İrem|title=Turkish Conservative Modernism: Birth of a Nationalist Quest for Cultural Renewal|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|page=94|date=February 2002|volume=34|issue=1|s2cid=146794994|jstor=3880169|doi=10.1017/S0020743802001046}} They also supported the ideas of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and the magazine became the mouthpiece for his Turkish followers.{{cite journal|author=M. Sait Özervarlı|title=Intellectual Foundations and Transformations in an Imperial City: Istanbul from the Late Ottoman to the Early Republican Periods|journal=The Muslim World|date=October 2013|volume=103|issue=4|page=524|doi=10.1111/muwo.12031}}{{cite book|author=Jan-Markus Vömel|editor1=Deniz Kuru|editor2=Hazal Papuccular|year=2022|title=The Turkish Connection. Global Intellectual Histories of the Late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey|publisher=De Gruyter|page=252 Oldenbourg|location=Berlin; Boston|isbn=9783110757293
|chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110757293-010/html|chapter=Global Intellectual Transfers and the Making of Turkish High Islamism, c. 1960–1995|doi=10.1515/9783110757293-010}}
Dergâh acted as an intellectual platform which reinforced the traditionalist conservatism.{{cite journal|author=Fırat Mollaer| title=From Conservatism to Turkish Conservatism: Cultural and Political Roots of an Idelogy|journal=Mukaddime|volume=14|issue=2|year=2023| doi=10.19059/mukaddime.1368014|page=187|doi-access=free}} It was among the early Turkish periodicals which covered articles on folklore.{{cite journal|author1=W. Eberhard|author2=Pertev Naili Boratav|title=The Development of Folklore in Turkey|journal=Journal of American Folklore
|date=July-September 1945|volume=58|issue=229|page=253|doi=10.2307/536614|jstor=536614|author2-link=Pertev Naili Boratav}}
Dergâh folded on 5 January 1922 after producing a total of forty-two issues.{{cite news|title=Yahya Kemal çevresinde toplanan edebi okul: Dergah dergisi|url=https://www.fikriyat.com/galeri/edebiyat/yahya-kemal-cevresinde-toplanan-edebi-okul-dergah-dergisi/6
|work=Fikriyat|date=19 October 2020|language=tr|access-date=20 September 2021}}
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Category:1921 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
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Category:Biweekly magazines published in Turkey
Category:Defunct conservative magazines
Category:Defunct literary magazines published in Turkey
Category:Defunct magazines published in Istanbul
Category:Defunct Turkish-language magazines
Category:Magazines established in 1921