Kim (magazine)

Kim (meaning Who? in English) was a Turkish language women's magazine existed between 1992 and 1999. The magazine held feminist ideas and values and was among the most popular and best-selling magazines in Turkey during the 1990s.[1][2]

Kim
Editor-in-chiefDuygu Asena
CategoriesWomen's magazine
PublisherAD Publishing
Year founded1992
Final issue1999
CountryTurkey
Based inIstanbul
LanguageTurkish

History and profile

Kim was established in 1992 with the motto "personal is political".[1][3] The founding company was AD Publishing.[2] Duygu Asena was named editor-in-chief of Kim in 1993.[4][5] It carried articles on equality of women, discrimination against women and social gender[2] which were mostly articulated by Duygu Asena.[6] The readers of the magazine were middle-class women aged 20-30.[2]

Duygu Asena, in an interview, reported that Kim was very similar to Kadınca and its continuation.[4] Because both dealt with women-related topics such as relationships, sex, beauty, and fashion.[7] However, Asena also stated that Kim was more political and addressed younger women unlike Kadınca.[4] Süheyla Kırca also provides some differences between these two magazines indicating that Kim did not focus on sport, environmental issues and employment which were among the frequent topics in Kadınca.[7] Kim folded in 1999.[1]

References
  1. Yeşim Arata (August 2004). "Rethinking The Polotical: A Feminist Journal In Turkey, Pazartesi". Women's Studies International Forum. 27 (3). Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  2. Selda Malkoç Kılıç; Duygu Vefikuluçay Yılmaz (March 2019). "Cumhuriyet Dönemi Kadın Dergileri (1923-1992)". OPUS (in Turkish). 10 (17).
  3. Emrah Güler (20 January 2014). "Women's magazines that redefined feminism in Turkey". Hürriyet. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  4. Fahriye Dinçer; Ülker Uncu (1 October 2006). ""Ayşe'ler Uyanın, Ali'leri Eğitin": Duygu Asena ile Yayıncılık Üzerine Söyleşi". Feminist Yaklaşımlar (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  5. "Doodle for Late Feminist Writer Duygu Asena". Bianet. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  6. Yeşim Arat; Şevket Pamuk (5 September 2019). Turkey between Democracy and Authoritarianism. Cambridge University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-521-19116-6.
  7. Süheyla Kırca (2001). "Turkish Women's Magazines: The Popular Meets the Political". Women's Studies International Forum. 24 (3–4).
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