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In this study, New Year Celebrations in Istanbul between 1926 and 1938 have been examined. Beyoğlu district is seen at the front as the center of entertainment in Istanbul. Several people from almost all socio-economic levels would go to the entertainment venues here. The interest in the New Year brought New Year articles with it. In these articles, the New Year was analyzed from an either pessimistic or optimistic point of view. Moreover, the passion for overspending was criticized. One peculiarity of these celebrations was to start the tradition of New Year lottery which has reached the present day. This lottery would draw much attention as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ömer Seyfettin is one of the majör writers of the Constitutional Monarchy period in Ottoman Empire. Generally in his tales some of the political and ethnical clashes, which had taken place in Balkan War at the beginning of 20th century, were narrated. In this article, it is studied how some important regional-historical changes reflected to Ömer Seyfettin's tales like; the situation of Balkan Turkish population during the war, the relationship between Turkish and the other Balkan nations, demographical frame at the region [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the study of Ottoman dynastic history through women's writings, such as harem women's personal letter correspondence, women's harem memoirs and recollections, and foreign women travelers' accounts, published in popular historical magazines in Turkey during the 1950s and 60s. The paper also considers the popular nature of the publications that featured these writings and their significance in the framework of the changing nationalist discourse and corresponding changes in Turkish historiography during the 1950s. It shows that articles based on women's writings revealed intimate aspects of the Ottoman elite's relationships in general and of Ottoman women in particular, and suggests that their publication in popular magazines played an important role in re-imagining the Turkish woman in the framework of the post-Kemalist nationalist discourse. It concludes that women's writings, used as primary sources by Turkish historians, provided an insider's point of view on the secretive life of the harem and its inhabitants and attracted a popular readership, thus exposing wider audiences to an Ottoman-centered historical discourse, and ultimately played an important role in the writing of Ottoman women's history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]