Özet:

Sesler is an important journal for Macedonian Turks as well as for all Balkan Turks. The journal, published in Turkish with the Latin alphabet in Skopje, published its first issue in December 1965. The journal, which has undertaken a duty in terms of its function and claim to reveal the Turkish presence in the region, constitutes the culture and art ground for the Ottoman peoples in the Balkans. After the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), when the Ottoman Empire completely lost its dominance in the region, the Turks became increasingly isolated. About a hundred years from now, at the beginning of the 21st the century, the struggle for existence of a well-organized journal like Sesler is an indication of how valuable it is to Turks and Turkish literature. This article was edited in the first issue of Sesler journal to give concrete examples of how effective socialist realism was. The first issues of culture-art-literature journals are in the nature of manifesto. In Turkish literature, preface and first issues of journals are used as a traditional tool to reflect the understanding of art. Those journals are composed of poets and writers gathered with a specific artistic understanding. The first numbers form the natural ground to give direction to literary understanding. It is important to look at the first issue of Sesler from this point of view and to make determinations, for the intellectual foundations of the journal. The existence of a socialist state administration in which the journal started its publication has strengthened the idea that socialist realism can be traced in Sesler. If socialist realism is to be followed, it is a value that can be transformed into literary activities within the influence of the socio-political structure in Macedonia.

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