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Loathe as I am to egg this on, since there seems to be some possibly genuine skepticism about my assertions, let's look at some documents, shall we? A thread on Nazi sympathies in the Turkish press. https://twitter.com/jdryan08/status/1338826434576584704
My conclusions here are largely drawn from my research in the US National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, MD, primarily in the Consular reports on intelligence and the press, and reports like this one drawn up for the OSS on Atsız's trial in 1944/5.
From that same report: the US' understanding of the ultimate goals of the racist-Turanists. This statement generally comports with what you might read in Orhun, Gök-Börü, Atsız Mecmua, or the defense statements offered at the trial by the accused. They were not shy about this.
Here are some excerpts from an intelligence report offered by a mole in the German embassy to the Americans. Gives you a sense of the kinds of activities the Nazi's were up to in the Turkish press. Note the country specific account was almost always overdrawn.
Note here, among the journals translated for intelligence purposes for the German embassy are Orhun and Çınaraltı, two journals in which you would find Atsız's work.
The German embassy was *really* interested in what was being written in Çınaraltı and Orhun.
Now, who actually took money from the Nazis? In addition to Necmettin Sadak, proprietor of Akşam, here we have Yunus Nadi, the editor of Cumhuriyet, accepting cash and palling around at Nazi cocktail parties.
This OSS report also has more of the US' assessment of Cumhuriyet and the Nadis sympathies with the Axis.
Now, did Atsız write for Cumhuriyet? No, but do you know who published Çınaraltı, for whom Atsız did write? Yup, same place, same guys.
Does this mean Atsız himself took money from the Nazis? No, I don't assert that, and it's possible he didn't because from the German perspective, why buy the cow when you get the milk for free? /fin
