{{short description|Turkish political magazine (1971)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = {{ubl|Mümtaz Soysal|Muammer Aksoy}} | editor_title = Editor-in-chief | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | category = Political magazine | company = | publisher = | founder = Kemal Bisalman | founded = 1971 | firstdate = April 1971 | finaldate = 29 November 1971 | country = Turkey | based = Istanbul | language = Turkish | oclc = 175311501 }} '''''Ortam''''' ({{langx|tr|Setting}}) was a weekly political magazine in Istanbul, Turkey, between April and November 1971. Founded immediately after the military coup on 12 March 1971 the magazine was one of the oppositional publications in the country. The editors and contributors of the magazine included many significant Turkish journalists, including Mümtaz Soysal, Muammer Aksoy and Uğur Mumcu among others.
==History and profile== ''Ortam'' was established by Kemal Bisalman and first published in April 1971.<ref name=hur/> The headquarters of the magazine was in Cağaloğlu, Istanbul.<ref name=ayca/> The magazine was published by Vatan Publishing company on a weekly basis on Saturdays.<ref name=cum/><ref name=tbmm>{{cite web|url=https://www5.tbmm.gov.tr/tutanaklar/TUTANAK/MM__/d03/c023/b058/mm__030230580219.pdf|publisher=TBMM|access-date=14 September 2021|date=10 March 1972|title=Parliament Documents|language=tr}}</ref> The founding editor-in-chief was Mümtaz Soysal.<ref name=ayca/> He was arrested by the military authorities after the publication of the second issue, and ''Ortam'' did not appear until June 1971 when it was published under the editorship of Muammer Aksoy.<ref name=ayca/> He was also arrested following the tenth issue of ''Ortam''.<ref name=ayca/> After this the post of editor-in-chief was not mentioned in the masthead of the magazine.<ref name=ayca/>
Three influential Turkish journalists, namely Uğur Mumcu, Aydın Engin and Osman Ulagay, started their journalistic career in ''Ortam''.<ref name=ayca>{{cite journal|author=Ayla Acar|title=A Review in Opposition in the Period 12th March (1971): Ortam|journal=İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi|date=2012|language=tr|issue=42|pages=6–8|url=http://acikerisim.gelisim.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/11363/979?show=full}}</ref> Uğur Mumcu served as the bureau chief of the magazine in Ankara.<ref name=cum>{{cite news|author=Aydın Engin|title=Gülümseyen Gülümseten Uğur Mumcu|access-date=14 September 2021|work=Cumhuriyet|url=https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/aydin-engin/gulumseyen-gulumseten-ugur-mumcu-196159|date=25 January 2015|language=tr}}</ref> İlhami Soysal, Nimet Arzık, Refik Erduran, Hıfzı Veldet Velidedeoğlu and Ali Sirmen were other contributors of the magazine.<ref name=ayca/>
In November 1971 from the nineteenth issue the magazine was renamed ''Yeni Ortam'' (Turkish: ''New Setting'') and produced four issues under this title before ceasing publication on 29 November 1971.<ref name=ayca/> During its lifetime the magazine sold nearly 35,000 copies.<ref name=tbmm/> The founder, Kemal Bisalman, launched a daily newspaper with the same name which was first published on 11 September 1972.<ref name=hur>{{cite news|title=Kemal Bisalman Kalbine yenildi|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/kemal-bisalman-kalbine-yenildi-39118195|access-date=14 September 2021|work=Hürriyet|date=10 December 1999|location=İstanbul|language=tr}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Yeni Ortam'ın Patronu Gazeteyi Faşistlere Sattı|journal=Maden İş Dergisi|date=1 March 1976|issue=71|page=6|url=https://www.birlesikmetalis.org/maden_is/madenis_dergi_71.pdf|archive-date=14 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914084834/https://www.birlesikmetalis.org/maden_is/madenis_dergi_71.pdf |language=tr}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175311501 WorldCat record]
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ortam}} Category:1971 establishments in Turkey Category:1971 disestablishments in Turkey Category:Censorship in Turkey Category:Defunct magazines published in Istanbul Category:Defunct Turkish-language magazines Category:Defunct political magazines published in Turkey Category:Magazines established in 1971 Category:Magazines disestablished in 1971 Category:Weekly magazines published in Turkey