Istanbul and the Pan-Turkic Scene
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2014

Abstract Fleeing to Istanbul, Yusuf Akçura and Ahmet Ağaoğlu established the journal Turk Yurdu in 1912. The venture was financed through their contacts in Russia, and the journal became the center of an increasingly fashionable movement during the Young Turk era of Ottoman history (1908–18). While Gasprinskii remained in Crimea, his yearly visits to Istanbul helped to create the pan-Turkic scene alongside spies, student groups, Hungarian Turkologists, and a sudden inundation of war refugees.