[6] In addition to Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel, the latter general director of the new republic and co-founder of the Istanbul daily Cumhuriyet,[1] influential intellectuals such as Sabahattin Ali and Suat Derviş,[5] as well as the Marxist-influenced poet Nazim Hikmet were among the authors.

It contained around forty large-format pages per issue and costed 25 Kurus which made it five times more expensive than an average daily newspaper.

[4] Despite its high price, Resimli Ay became a popular publication among the Turkish population[4] and dealt with social issues in the form of editorials, opinion surveys, reader's letters, short stories and poems as well as self-help articles.

[4] Glamorous illustrations in the style of Vanity Fair or Vogue were intended to draw a cosmopolitan picture of women in public sphere and reflected the urban elite of Istanbul.

[4] Thus the first edition under the title "Bugünkü Türk Kadınlar" ("Turkish Women Today") was dedicated to the cosmopolitan woman of post-war period in Istanbul.