It was one of seventy-five official media outlets of the People's Houses, cultural institutions started in 1932 as an enlightenment project.
[3][4] The goal was to provide a theoretical basis for the six pillars of Kemalism, namely republicanism, populism, nationalism, laicism, statism, and reformism, and to facilitate their adoption by Turkish people.
[5] Nusret Kemal Köymen and Necip Ali Küçüka were the directors of Ülkü between February 1933 and 1941.
[2] Its notable contributors included Recep Peker, Şevket Aziz Kansu, Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Pertev N. Boratav, Elif Naci, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Suut Kemal Yetkin, Yusuf Ziya Ortaç, Orhan Veli Kanık, Hasan Âli Yücel, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu[1][6] and Sadi Irmak.
[7] Until the editorship of Mehmet Fuat Köprülü in 1936 Ülkü published articles on the Ottoman state which were based on popular accounts.