Dean of the European University of Lefke (EUL) Education Faculty and Turkish Language and Literature expert Prof.Dr. Oğuz Karakartal made a statement due to the Turkish Language Festival.

Military-writer Ömer Seyfettin initiated the simplification of the Turkish language in 1911.

Karakartal stated in his statement that the opening day of the Turkish Language Congress, which was held in 1932 with the participation of Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was to be celebrated as “Language Festival” every year. Karakartal said, “Our mother tongue, Turkish, was removed from unnecessary Arabic and Persian words and rules, thanks to Atatürk. The activation of the Turkish Language and Turkish Historical Institutions after the alphabet revolution in 1928 brings with it a return to national, main sources. In 1911, another soldier-writer Ömer Seyfettin initiated the simplification of the Turkish language. This movement, which he named Yeni Lisan, aimed to remove the words and rules used in our language for Arabic and Persian ornaments and to make the spoken language the written language ”.

Karakartal: In the edict of Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey: “Turkish language was gained with the order” not to use languages other than Turkish in the dervish, in the market “

“Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who is also a soldier and orator, concluded the main language revolution on the way that Ömer Seyfettin opened with the works of the Turkish Language Association and himself, through the alphabet revolution. In an Iranian source belonging to Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey and declared by him, in the edict stated by him: “Turkish language was gained with the order” not to use a language other than Turkish in the dervish, in the market “, over time, interactions resulting from sharing the same geography with Arab and Persian cultures, an Arab -Turkish lost its balance by causing the admiration of Fars and language deterioration, ”said Karakartal, XIX. He pointed out that since the second half of the century, thanks to Ahmet Vefik Pasha, Şemsettin Sami, Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Ömer Seyfettin, Ziya Gökalp and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, we have attained the strong, plain and fluent Turkish we speak and write today.

Finally, Karakartal reminded that one of the departments of EUL Faculty of Education, which has a rich view in TRNC with its educational quality and staff, is the Department of Turkish Language Teaching, and stated that he believes that they are raising ideal Turkish teacher candidates around Atatürk’s goals and the ideal of protecting the Turkish language.