Suat Derviş and Phosphorescent Cevriye

For nearly thirty years, from the publication of "Nothing" in 1939, no publishing house published Derviş's novels. In 1944, "For Zeynep," later published as "Ankara Prisoner" in 1968, was serialized. That same year, the novels "We Are Three Sisters," "Fosforlu Cevriye," and "Çılgın Gibi" (Crazy Like) were also published. In 1947, "Büyük Ateş" (The Great Fire) was serialized.

In "A Perihan from Aksaray," serialized in Gece Postası, Suat Derviş criticized a society that was growing richer but also degenerating through the character of Perihan. Following "Ankara Prisoner" and "Fosforlu Cevriye," Russian romance novels were published in the Soviet Union.

Suat Derviş worked for the newspapers İleri, Alemdar, İkdam, Süs, Resimli Ay, Cumhuriyet, Son Posta, Yeni Ay, Tan, Haber, Son Telgraf, and Gece Postası. In 1922, she conducted the first interview for the Alemdar newspaper with Refet Bele, who came to Istanbul as a representative of the Ankara government. While working at Son Posta, she went to cover the Montreux Conference in 1936. She was the first female journalist to travel abroad.

The Tan newspaper played a significant role in his journalistic career. Before World War II, the newspaper sent its writers abroad to cover political conflicts in Europe and tasked Suat Derviş with monitoring developments in Russia.

From 1936 onward, she addressed women's issues at the Tan newspaper, reporting on foreign policy events. However, the most significant development that impacted her life during her time there was her trip to the Soviet Union. With Tan and Resimli Ay, she entered the world of the leftist press.

“The Novel of Things That Happened,” serialized in the Tan newspaper in 1937, broke away from its propaganda-filled content and went beyond the narrow framework of social realism.

Details of Suat Derviş's three marriages, to Seyfi Cenap Berksoy, Selami İzzet Sedes, and Nizamettin Nazif Tepedelenli, are shrouded in mystery. However, his fourth marriage, to Reşat Fuat Baraner, a member of the group that published Yeni Edebiyat magazine, took place in 1941.

Baraner was the grandson of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's maternal aunt. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Turkey. Yeni Edebiyat, which brought Baraner and Derviş together, was a magazine with a socialist literary approach. It served as the TKP's semi-official publication.

Yeni Edebiyat published twenty-six issues between October 5, 1940, and November 15, 1941. It was closed by martial law in 1941. Suat Derviş published his review, "Why Am I a Friend of the Soviet Union?", in 1944.

After this date, he was unable to find work as a journalist. Unable to have his works published under his own name, he used pseudonyms. He was arrested along with his wife in 1944. During interrogation, Suat Derviş stated, "She miscarried her child. She was released after eight months in detention."

This marriage further strengthened Suat Derviş's leftist views. He began working within the Communist Party's structure in Türkiye. Baraner's writings were published in Yeni Edebiyat under the name Suat Derviş.

His wife's trials and imprisonment in both 1944 and 1951 brought hardship to Suat Derviş. He moved to Sweden to join his sister in 1953. He began writing for various newspapers and magazines in Europe. Ankara Prisoner was published in French in 1957.

Suat Derviş returned home in 1963. He wrote novels and stories under pseudonyms and occupied himself with children's fairy tales and translations. He was deeply saddened by the death of Reşat Fuat Baraner on August 12, 1968. With the support of his sister, his works were translated into French, Bulgarian, and Russian.

But she continued her political struggle and writing until the end of her life. In her final years, she helped found the Revolutionary Women's Union. In 1971, she hid many young leftists in her home. She was arrested after this was revealed.