Paradigma: İktisadi ve İdari Araştırmalar Dergisi

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After the Second World War, the winds of democracy began to blow in Turkey. Thus, the freedom of association and expression was paved, and the number of published political opinion journals increased. One of these magazines is Hür Fikirler, which was published in a liberal line in 1948 and 1949. The journal became the extension of liberal thought in Turkey against the rising socialist thought movement in the world at the beginning of the cold war. Expressing that it does not have a political aim, the management of the journal aimed to create public opinion in the liberal line of thought. In this context, it has included many writers in the identity of intellectuals, journalists and lawyers.In this study, it is aimed to examine the political ideas put forward under various titles in Hür Fikirler magazine. The magazine, which has a very rich variety of topics, mainly includes articles on politics and law, as well as articles on topics such as economy, press-broadcasting, language issues, academic world, and family. In the study, the articles published in the journal were examined by collecting them under thematic headings of "democracy; competition of systems and the future of the world; bicameral procedure; law-justice-judiciary; republican reforms; Turkish and language issue; the negative impact of modernization on the family". The magazine did not directly enter Turkey's domestic political issues, but mainly focused on the world agenda. However, it also referred to Turkey's internal problems, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. Hür Fikirler magazine has taken its place on the side of Liberal Capitalism in the struggle of Capitalism-Socialism in the World and has handled world issues with this approach. This is the essential feature of the ideological identity of the journal.