Kalem (magazine)

Kalem
Cover page of Kalem, issue 23 dated 4 February 1909
EditorLucien Sciuto
Categories
  • Satirical magazine
  • Political magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founder
Founded1908
First issueSeptember 1908
Final issueJune 1911
CountryOttoman Empire
Based inIstanbul
Language
  • Ottoman Turkish
  • French

Kalem (Ottoman Turkish: Pen) was a bilingual weekly political satire magazine which was in circulation in the period 1908–1911 in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire.[1] The magazine was one of the satirical publications which were started immediately after the end of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid's strict rule.[2] It was published in Turkish and French languages and was one of the most notable satirical magazines in the Empire in terms of the quality cartoons.[3] In addition, it is the first Ottoman publication which employed the word cartoon and attempted to develop a definition for it.[4]

  1. ^ "Catalogue record". Qalem. Hathi Trust: 130 v. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
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  3. ^ Efrat E. Aviv (2013). "Cartoons in Turkey – From Abdülhamid to Erdoğan". Middle Eastern Studies. 49 (2): 224. doi:10.1080/00263206.2012.759101. S2CID 146388882.
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