TÜRKİYE’DE KIRSALIN KOŞULLARINI YÖN DERGİSİ ÜZERİNDEN OKUMAK
READING THE CONDITIONS THE RURAL STRUCTURE IN TURKEY THROUGH THE MAGAZINE ‘YÖN’

Summary/Abstract: The 1960 was collectively an important era for Turkey’s rural debates. They were they were largely tied to import substitution and industrialization within the framework of development plans. This also included the new axis of development and the genealogy of Turkey’s intellectual climate. In this context, the magazine Yön * which is the subject of this study – viewed and analyzed Turkey’s economic, political, and social life – rural and urban alike – from the angle of left-wing Kemalism. The study will look at how Yön addressed the country’s rural/agricultural problem. In this context, we will discuss the inequality of ownership in the countryside, borrowing practices, views around the draft law on landing the farmer, and the authors’ views of rural development. The magazine also featured the origins, developments of, and the forms these relations took across the country, all the while addressing center-local power relations and the reproduction of these relations in local networks. Yön offered solutions to those problems – namely a more egalitarian rural policy (thus revealing the dynamics of a socialist power strategy in the countryside), expropriation, consolidation, cooperativization, and active participation by villagers in the process. During our research, we looked weekly issues of the Yön alongside secondary texts related to the magazine and the political economy from the aforementioned period.

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