About the archive
Sızıntı began as a monthly in February 1979 and did not miss a single month for twenty-five years. Three hundred issues, four thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight pieces of writing, all of them here with not one month missing. This archive exists to keep them and to make them readable again: a way back to something familiar for those who once read it, and a first door for those who never could.
- Articles
- 4,868
- Issues
- 300
- Span
- 1979–2004
- Words
- 3,925,950
- Bylines
- 965
- Images
- 10,314
What was kept
Twenty-five years of a magazine is more than its articles. Here you will find every cover, the editorial that opened each issue, the short passages of Ölçü, the poems, the whole run of sections from literature to medicine and zoology, and the pictures and diagrams that ran inside the pieces. They belonged together once and they still do; the magazine only makes sense whole.
The writing itself was left alone. The magazine’s own spelling, punctuation and choice of words were kept as they stood, even where they look unfamiliar today; line breaks in the poems and subscripts in the science pieces are where they always were. Every piece was tied back to its issue, its page and its byline, so the month it appeared in and the hand that wrote it are always in view.
What is not here
An archive has to be plain about where it ends. These are the limits of this one:
- The magazine ran from February 1979 to June 2016, four hundred and forty-nine issues in all. Three hundred of them are here, February 1979 to January 2004. The remaining one hundred and forty-nine will be prepared, and will join this shelf as they are worked through, one issue at a time.
- There is no page-by-page facsimile of the printed magazine. The covers survive, and some full-page compositions; the rest is the text of the pieces and the pictures that ran inside them.
- There are no audio or video recordings.
- A quarter of the pieces ran under the magazine’s own byline. Some have since been matched to their writers; the rest still stand under the magazine’s name.
Reading
Every piece can be read two ways: an easy single column, or the multi-column setting close to the printed page. Poems stay in one column either way, since justification and hyphenation break a line of verse. Where a scan of the whole printed page survives, the page itself is there as a third way to read.