[2] The contributors of Büyük Doğu included many leading journalists and writers: Ziya Şakir, Mahmut Yesari, Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Nurullah Berk, Hilmi Ziya Ülken, Mehmet Faruk Gürtunca, Suphi Nuri İleri, Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın, Nizamettin Nazif, Nejat Muhsinoğlu, Peyami Safa, Şükrü Baban, Burhan Belge, Kazım Nami, Salih Zeki, Tevfik Fikret, Özdemir Asaf, İskender Fikret, Kenan Harun, Salah Birsel, Mehmet Turhan and Sait Faik.
[3] On 2 November 1943 Büyük Doğu newspaper was banned due to the articles which were written by Necip Fazıl Kısakürek under different pseudonyms.
[7] One year after its start Necip Fazıl published his commentary about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion which contained a clear anti-Semitic tone.
[8] In March 1951 leftist university students organized demonstrations protesting both Büyük Doğu and Sebilürreşad due to their religious approach and were arrested by the Turkish forces.
[10] The criticisms of Büyük Doğu against reforms carried out by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in March 1959 also led to violent protests by university professors, students and journalists.
[11] In addition to political content Büyük Doğu featured several examples of the symbolist poems which were formalized in a former literary magazine Dergâh.