The late Samiha Ayverdi, who is by far the top among our female intellectuals, began her opening speech at the Second Language Congress organized by the Turkish Teachers' Union on April 27, 1968, with the following sentence:
"Today, when the Turkish intellectual picks up any one of the intellectual, social, economic issues piled up before him as if by taking a thought, he is faced with a situation that is brought before him and which almost says, 'Where are you going, skipping me?' "Turkish..." is faced with a national cause that puts itself forward by crying out: "Turkish...".
52 years have passed.
Turkish is again our number one national cause.
Those who remember the article titled 'New Language' in the Genç Kalemler Magazine dated 11 April 1911 published in Thessaloniki accept the period as 109 years.
It is also possible to claim and prove that the roots of the issue are even older.
Of course there are those responsible for the fact that our Tu Show More