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The Yön and Devrim movement existed within the history of Turkish democracy between 1961 and 1971. The Yön and Devrim movement, which exhibits a strong intellectual dynamism, consists of two periodicals of the same names. The first media organ of the Yön and Devrim movement is the Yön newspaper. Yön newspaper was published monthly in 222 issues between 1961 and 1967. The second publication of the The Yön and Devrim movement is the newspaper, Devrim. Devrim newspaper was published in 79 issues between 1969 and 1971. Doğan Avcıoğlu, Mümtaz Soysal, İlhan Selçuk, Niyazi Berkes, Altan Öymen, Cemal Reşit Eyüboğlu, Çetin Altan, Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, Korkut Boratav, Hasan Cemal, İdris Küçükömer and Sadun Aren were the leading intellectuals of the Yön and Devrim movement. The Yön and Devrim movement made a big impact in the period of 1961-1971 in terms of its views. It has become one of the most influential intellectual movements of the Turkish political world of thought. The Yön and Devrim movement came to the forefront with its views in the trilogy of Marxism, Socialism and Kemalism. The claim to create a local and original development method by adapting socialism to Turkey is the most distinctive feature of the Yön and Devrim movement. Achieving a national socialism is the main agenda item of the Yön and Devrim movement, which made a strong effect on the bureaucratic elite, army members and university students. A leftist interpretation of Marxism and Kemalism was incorporated into Socialism in order to channel Turkey into a national socialism. In this context, the effort to adapt the six basic principles of Kemalism, consisting of Republicanism, Nationalism, Populism, Statism, Secularism and Revolutionism, to the conditions of the 1961-1971 period of Turkish democracy and to the left-leaning theses of Yön and Devrim has emerged. The Yön and Devrim The movement's approach of Secularism, one of the six main principles of Kemalism, is the subject of this study. The aim of this research, which is about the Yön and Devrim movement, is to examine the analysis of the aforementioned press about Kemalism's principle of Secularism.