Archive as Pulp: In and Through Kağıthane
Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
April 2022
“On February 24, 2022, the weekly humor magazine Leman tweeted: “Perhaps we won’t be able to publish next week. We can’t find paper.”1 Three days later, they issued an update: “We were able to source the paper for this week’s issue. Went to press yesterday. We print tomorrow. Paper supplier friends intervened, which made a difference. We apologize for having bothered you and we are grateful for the support messages. Those who had rejoiced, that’s also OK.”2 The director of the magazine, Tuncay Akgün, said that regular distribution was becoming impossible as the Publishers’ Association of Turkey [Türkiye Yayıncılar Birliği] warned that the paper crisis could last until June of this year.3 According to data from the Statistics Institute of Turkey [Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK)], the domestic production index showed an annual increase of 105 percent in February 2022, with the increase in the cost of paper at a high point of 168 percent.”
