THE �AKRAK FAMILY:
Pioneer Publishers of Belgian-French Comics in Turkey
The leading comics from the Belgian journal Spirou were largely carried out for a very long period in Turkey  by the �akrak Family in the form of traced, black&white versions. In 1959, Adnan �akrak's Bilgi Yay�nlar� [Bilgi Publications] began issuing the weekly Sipru [Spirou & Fantasio] and Red Kit [Lucky Luke] comics, joined a year later by K���k Prens [Johann & Pirlaut]. These were unlicensed publications. Sometime in mid-1960s, the Bilgi Yay�nlar� banner was dropped and the ownership of the magazines passed onto Bilge �akrak.
While Sipru and K���k Prens were short-lived (the latter probably because of the limited number of original adventures) not withstanding sporadic reprints, �akrak continued Red Kit without a break into early 1970s. Other comics magazines issued by �akrak include Viking, Alptekin (Turkish medieval heroics)), Alt�nkanat (Dago), Dago (which used 'Rakar' as filler space), Zapo (western) and Kansas (western), all these in 1969-70. The last comics put out by �akrak appears to be Rakar (1974).
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