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The magazine explains the understanding of democracy by saying, "We believe that expecting saviors other than the people is a wrong and harmful attitude." he explained. Direction magazine, which was published weekly and included a special topic and many comments on this topic in each issue, determined the agenda. In the magazine, critical evaluations were made on economy, society, politics, working life, culture and art. Doğan Avcıoğlu was the most productive writers of the magazine with 194 articles, İlhan Selçuk with 129 articles and Fethi Naci with 78 articles.
Yön magazine had a privileged place in Turkey's political history as the pioneer of some direction-setting concepts for the establishment of better social and economic conditions.
In the 86th issue of Yön, dated 20 November 1964, for the first time, a photograph of a Turkish intellectual, journalist-writer İlhami Sosyal, at the grave of Nazım Hikmet in Moscow was published, and the article accompanying the photograph titled "Death of a Turkish poet" was published, just like Doğan. Avcıoğlu's editorial in the first issue read: "Turkey's salvation comes through socialism". It was a turning point as he ended with the words: Yön magazine was breaking taboos in accordance with its founding purpose.
The magazine, which started to be published again in 1964, published 222 issues until it ceased publication on June 30, 1967. In its last issue, it was announced that weekly publication would be discontinued and that it would henceforth be published daily, but it was not published again. The reason for the closure was attributed to the decrease in the number of readers.
