[2] Then he worked for the Istanbul-based newspaper Tasvîr-i Efkâr edited by Yunus Nadi and owned by Velid Ebuzziya.

[4] Next year Zekeriya Sertel and his colleagues founded a weekly magazine entitled Büyük Mecmua (Turkish: The Big Review).

[1] In 1919 Zekeriya Sertel was first arrested and detained by the Ottoman authorities due to his articles in Büyük Mecmua which criticised the occupation of Istanbul by the British and other western forces.

[5] He was also tried in the Independence Courts which resulted in his three-year imprisonment immediately after the start of weekly magazine Resimli Perşembe in 1925.

[9] Not only Zekeriya but also his wife and Halil Lütfü Dördüncü were convicted of libeling the Republic of Turkey and members of the Grand National Assembly.

[9] He and his wife left Turkey in 1950 because of political pressures and lived in different countries, namely the Soviet Union, Hungary and France.

[1] Sertel was the author of several books, including Mavi Gözlü Dev which is a biography of his friend and poet Nazım Hikmet Ran.