^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} An Ornamental Journal For Ottoman Turkish Women: Süs (16 June 1923 - 26 July 1924) -

The publication of women-oriented class journals, which was initiated within the last period of the Ottoman Empire and accelerated during the Second Constitutional Period, was pursued in the first years of the Turkish Republic as well. Women's journals published within this period can be reckoned as the descendants of those published in the Ottoman Period. Süs is a women's journal published precisely during this process of transition (1923-1924).

The diversity of the content from literary works to entertaining parts, practical guides, political news and also intellectual articles, and the object to keep an equal distance between all of these different elements, brings forth the idea that Süs was published in accordance with commercial motives rather than an intellectual mission. Furthermore, the actual target mass of the journal is observed to be the educated young girls.

Considering the fact that, the majority of the editorial staff was experienced literary people and the people who were previously engaged in publication of various magazines, Süs can be evaluated respectively successful in terms of anticipating the overall tendency of the target mass and preparing a relevant content that appeals to them. One of the most significant objectives of this work is to obtain an opinion about the agenda, interests and intellectual worlds of the target mass of Süs, which was skillfully issued with commercial motives, namely the educated young girls who used to live in İstanbul or other big cities between 1923 and 1924. Moreover, it is aimed to discuss the remarkable “women's issues” of the related period through the perspective of an Ottoman women's journal.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
The Historical Process
Süs in Other Studies
Sources and Methodology
A Glance at the Chapters
CHAPTER 2
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SÜS
Format
Price
Subscription
Installments
Printing Press and Distribution
Illustrations
CHAPTER 3
AUTHORS, CONTRIBUTORS AND POETS
Male Authors
Mehmed Rauf
Celal Sahir
Cenab Şahabeddin
Abdullah Cevdet
Florinalı Nazım
Other Male Authors
Female Authors
Halide Nusret
Necibe Süreyya
Şükûfe Nihâl
Muazzez Yusuf
Ferhunde Hale
Suat Derviş
Other Female Authors
Poets and Poetry in Süs
Relationship Between The Authors
CHAPTER 4
THE TARGET MASS AND THE AIM OF SÜS
Readers' Profile of Süs
What Was the Aim of Süs?
How Can We Define the Journal? (Classfication)
Süs as a Literary Journal
Süs as an Entertaining Journal Including Useful Advice for Women
Süs as an Intellectual Journal of Thought
CHAPTER 5
CONTENT OF SÜS
Cover Pages
Advertisements
Premiums and Prizes
Competitions
Questionnaires
Content of Art
Literature
Painting
Theatre and Cinema
Entertaining Content of Süs
Advice Pages
Fashion
Humor
CHAPTER 6
PROGRESS OF TURKISH WOMEN IN SÜS
"Kadınlar Halk Fırkası" (Women's Public Party) and Süs
"Türk Kadını" (Turkish Woman)
"Beyaz Konferanslar" (White Conferences)
"Hukûk-i Aile" (The Family Law)
"Dedikodu" (Gossip)
"Kadınlık Âlemi" (World of Womanhood)
CHAPTER 7
CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
SELECTED ILLUSTRATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX