Turk Dil Kurumu
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| founding | 1932 |
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| Headquarters | Ankara |
| Authority management | Gürer Gülsevin (since 2018) |
| Website | tdk.gov.tr |
The Türk Dil Kurumu (TDK, German : "Turkish Language Society") is an institution of the Republic of Turkey for the reform of the Turkish language . The head of the institute is currently Şükrü Halûk Akalın.
history
The association was founded in the Republic of Turkey, which was proclaimed in 1923, on July 12, 1932 under the presidency of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk under the name of Türk Dili Tetkik Cemiyeti and received its current name in 1936. Co-founder was the Russian-Turkish ( Tatar ) ethnologist Hâmit Zübeyir Koşay . From 1934 the Armenian Turkologist Agop Dilâçar was the first general secretary of the society and kept this position until his death. Since 1983 the society has been part of the Ataturk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu (“High Ataturk Society for Culture, Language and History”). The Türk Dil Kurumu was financed from a legacy of Ataturk. The Turkish Language Society and the Turkish History Society were set up in Ataturk's will as heirs of the proceeds.
Areas of activity
The main task is the standardization, modernization and Turkishization of the language. To this end, it replaces words of Arabic , Persian or other origin with new creations based on Turkish roots. These are called Öztürkçe ("core Turkish"). In order to find suitable word stems, the company conducts extensive linguistic studies of various dialects and other Turkic languages . The results of linguistic research are various dictionaries. The dialect dictionary ( Derleme Sözlüğü ) and the historical dictionary Tarama Dergisi became famous . The words formed the basis for neologisms. These new creations were usually published in the press. The main period of the Turkish language reform was in the 1930s and 1940s and culminated in the nationalistic instrumentalization of the pseudoscientific “ solar language theory ” ( güneş dil teorisi ) by Hermann Feodor Kvergić (1895–1948 / 49), according to which the Turkish language was one of the original languages .
At the present time, Türk Dil Kurumu has no active language policy. The society is co-organizer of the annual International Turkish Olympics .
Publications
In addition to dictionaries, the society has published several hundred books on linguistic topics. It also publishes the scientific journals Türk Dili , Belleten and Türk Dünyası .
literature
- Geoffrey Lewis: The Turkish Language Reform. A Catastrophic Success . Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-925669-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Non-Muslims in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Kemalist Republic: Some Remarks ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The Journal of Turkish Weekly. June 24, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2013
