How Did We Get Here
The origins of Turkey's social context, traced via artworks, and elements of popular culture and social movements since 1980.
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The weekly magazine Sokak [Street] began its publication life under the chief-editorship of Tuğrul Eryılmaz, with a dissident editorial policy alternative to mainstream journalistic practices. A total of 32 issues were published from August 1989 to April 1990. The magazine, aiming to reach a young reader base, achieved a circulation of seven to eight thousand, and featured feminists, environmentalists, socialists, antimilitarists and LGBT individuals in its pages; and via these “marginal groups” drew attention to social problems that could not find a voice in mainstream media. Investigating the topics of the day such as city, multiple identities and citizenship Sokak focused on the struggles of unrepresented social groups and thus became one of the first periodicals that offered a space for identity politics in Turkey. It included reports on popular culture in addition to political articles, and stood apart from the political publications of its time because its approach did not differentiate between high culture and subculture.
Archive: Tuğrul Eryılmaz, Murat Öneş and Nilgün Öneş
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The origins of Turkey's social context, traced via artworks, and elements of popular culture and social movements since 1980.