[RARE COMPLETE RUN OF SATIRIC MAGAZINE IN ALL PRE & AFTER REPUBLICAN PERIODS] آى دده / Aydede: Pazartesi ve Çarsamba günleri nesrolunur mizah gazetesi. [i.e., Man-in-the-moon: Ottoman satyrical newspaper published twice a week]. 215 ISSUES COMPLETE SET

[KARAY], REFIK HALID (Founder and owner), (1888-1965).

Aydede, Istanbul, 1922-1949.

COMPLETE TITLE: [RARE COMPLETE RUN OF SATIRIC MAGAZINE IN ALL PRE & AFTER REPUBLICAN PERIODS] آى دده / Aydede: Pazartesi ve Çarsamba günleri nesrolunur mizah gazetesi. [i.e., Man-in-the-moon: Ottoman satyrical newspaper published twice a week]. 215 issues complete set: 1st Episode: 1-90 (1922-1923); 2nd Episode: 1-125 (1948-1949).

Contemporary four separate cloth bindings. Folio. (40 x 29 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters) and Turkish with Latin letters. 

Extremely rare complete run of the first and second episodes in Arabic and Latin letters, of this richly illustrated pre- and post-Republican Turkish satiric magazine including all 215 issues in four folio volumes, published between 2 Kanun-i Sânî 1338 [February 2, 1922] - 9 Ikinci Tesrîn 1339 [November 9, 1923]; and from 1948 to 1949.

This satirical magazine in Ottoman Turkish titled "Aydede" appeared in the first episode from January to November 1922 twice a week in 90 issues. In 1922, the magazine was banned when Refik Halit was forced by the Turkish Government into exile in Aleppo and Beirut. The reason was Refik Halit's overt opposition to the ongoing Turkish War of Independence. After his return, he published the magazine 1948 and 1949 for another ten months in the second episode with 125 issues, but with little success.

Its founder, owner, and publisher Refik Halit Karay (1888-1965), a well-known poet and journalist, criticized through the published articles, poems, and caricatures not only the social inconveniences and imbalances within the Turkish society but also the young Turkish republic in general. One of the contributors to Aydede was Ratip Tahir Burak, a well-known Turkish cartoonist. Despite the short period of its publication, the magazine influenced the satirical style of many intellectuals and subsequent satirical magazines, including Akbaba. (Wikipedia).

Duman 0156., As of May 2024, OCLC shows fourteen copies worldwide (28527467 & 1200741375 (Koc University Library Suna Kirac Library). Nine US libraries hold the set: (Columbia University Libraries, NY University, Princeton University Library, Duke University, University of Chicago Library, University of Texas Libraries, UC Berkeley Libraries, UCLA (x2).