Yön

Yön (meaning Direction in English) was a weekly Turkish political magazine published between 1961 and 1967. It was a Kemalist and leftist magazine.

History and profile

Yön started publication in Ankara on 20 December 1961. The founders included Doğan Avcıoğlu, Mümtaz Soysal, İlhan Selçuk and İlhami Soysal. Its editor was Doğan Avcıoğlu.Yön had a social democratic and Kemalist stance. The magazine supported for antifeudalism, and étatist and Third Worldist approach. It attempted to establish a national front to achieve national democracy in Turkey. In addition to political writings, the magazine also covered artistic work, including a poem of Nazım Hikmet (published in 1964) whose works had not been published in the country for a long time.

Immediately after its foundation the magazine enjoyed a circulation level of 30,000 copies. However it decreased to between 4,000 and 5,000 copies in 1965. The magazine ceased publication in 1967 and the last issue was published on 30 June 1967. The magazine was followed by Ant and Türk Solu, two political magazines.

Yes–no question

In linguistics, a yes–no question, formally known as a polar question, is a question whose expected answer is either "yes" or "no". Formally, they present an exclusive disjunction, a pair of alternatives of which only one is acceptable. In English, such questions can be formed in both positive and negative forms (e.g. "Will you be here tomorrow?" and "Won't you be here tomorrow?").

Yes–no questions are in contrast with non-polar wh-questions, with the five Ws, which do not necessarily present a range of alternative answers, or necessarily restrict that range to two alternatives. (Questions beginning with "which", for example, often presuppose a set of several alternatives, from which one is to be drawn.)

How such questions are posed

Yes–no questions are formed in various ways in various languages. In English, a special word order (verb–subject–object) is used to form yes–no questions. In the Greenlandic language, yes–no questions are formed with a special verb morphology. In Latin, yes–no questions are indicated by the addition of a special grammatical particle or an enclitic. In some languages, such as in Modern Greek, Portuguese, and the Jakaltek language, the only way to distinguish a yes–no question from a simple declarative statement is the rising question intonation used when saying the question. (Such questions are labelled declarative questions and are also available as an option in those languages that have other ways of asking yes–no questions.) The use of rising question intonation in yes–no questions is one of the universals of human languages.

Yn (disambiguation)

YN, Y.N., or Yn may refer to: