Agop Dilâçar

Agop Dilâçar (born May 22, 1895 in Istanbul as Յակոբ Մարթայեան Agop Martayan ; † September 12, 1979 ibid) was a Turkish professor and Turkologist of Armenian origin. From 1934 until his death he was general secretary of the state Türk Dil Kurumu (Council for the Turkish Language) and from 1941 to 1960 editor-in-chief of the Turkish Encyclopedia. Rumor has it that he was the person who suggested the surname “Ataturk” for the founder of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pascha .

origin of the name

He received the name "Dilâçar" as a family name of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the founder of the Republic of Turkey, for his services to the Turkish language. "Dilâçar" is an honorary title and means something like "liberator of language / tongue".

Life

Agop Martayan / Dilâçar attended the renowned Robert College in Istanbul in his youth . During his studies he worked as a teacher for the Armenian language and published in Armenian newspapers. After completing his studies, he served as an officer in the 2nd Army in Diyarbakır . He was recognized for his bravery. Because of his knowledge of English, he worked as an interpreter for the British prisoners of war after the siege of Kut . He was arrested and transported to Damascus because of secret off-duty contact with the prisoners. In Damascus he was introduced to Mustafa Kemal Pascha (Ataturk), who was then commander of the 7th Army. He pardoned the violation of the law and was impressed by the intelligence of the young Armenian, so he accepted him into his headquarters.

After the end of his service, he worked in Beirut as the director of an Armenian school. At the same time he was editor-in-chief of Luys , the first Armenian newspaper in Lebanon. He returned to Istanbul and from there set out with his wife Meline for Sofia , where he taught Old Turkish (then also called Uyghur) at the university there .

Ataturk became aware of him again in 1932 through an article by Agop Dilâçar in the Armenian newspaper Arevelk . Ataturk planned the renewal of the Turkish language at that time. He invited him to a conference on the renewal of the Turkish language in Istanbul. Thereupon Agop Dilâçar became the first general secretary and chief expert of the Turkish language institute " Türk Dil Kurumu " and settled in Ankara. He was a regular guest in Mustafa Kemal's solemn evening discussion at Çankaya Köşk .

He was buried in the Armenian cemetery in the Şişli district of Istanbul .

Merits

Agop Dilâçar taught as a professor of Turkic Studies at the University of Ankara , he wrote several important papers on the Turkish language . He is considered to be an important contributor to the Turkish language reform, whose (later) work can also make scientific claims. According to a rumor, Dilâçar was the person who suggested the surname "Ataturk" for the founder of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pascha . According to Turkish sources, Saffet Arıkan's sentence Ulu Önderimiz Ata Türk Mustafa Kemal (“Our great leader and Turkish father Mustafa Kemal”) was used in the opening speech of the “2. Language of the day ”on September 26, 1934 an inspiration for the surname“ Ataturk ”.

Works

Les bases Bio-Psychologiques de la Théorie Güneş Dil (Güneş Dil Teorisi'nin Biyopsikolojik Kökenleri) (1936)
Azeri Türkçesi (1950)
Batı Türkçesi (1953)
Lehçelerin Yazılma Tarzı
Türk Dil ve Lehçelerinin Tasnifi Meselesi (1954)
Devlet Dili Olarak Türkçe (1962)
Wilhelm Thomsen ve Orhon Yazıtlarının Çözülüşü (1963)
Türk Diline Genel Bir Bakış (1964)
Türkiye'de Dil Özleşmesi (1965)
Dil, Diller ve Dilcilik (1968)
Kutadgu Bilig İncelemesi (1972)
Anadili İlkeleri ve Türkiye Dışındaki Uygulamalar (1978)

Web links

A. Dilâçar. In: Dil Derneği. Retrieved November 4, 2018(Turkish, biography).
Yalçın Bayer: Agop Martayan'ı biliyor musunuz? In: Hürriyet . January 27, 2012 (Turkish).; accessed on November 4, 2018
Osman Fikri Sertkaya: Dilimizi dilim dilim… Agop Dilaçar. In: Türkiye . April 3, 2011 (Turkish).; accessed on November 4, 2018

Individual evidence

↑ Dilâçar, Agop. Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, 2005, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 .
↑ Maxime Gauin: Non-Muslims in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Kemalist Republic: Some Remarks. In: The Journal of Turkish Weekly. June 24, 2011, archived from the original on August 29, 2013 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 . Talas' last Armenian firm on staying. In: Hürriyet . November 8, 2011, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 .
↑ Jens Peter Laut: Turkish as an original language? Wiesbaden 2000, p. 1 note 2.
↑ Düzgün Karadaş: Gazi, önerilen 14. soyadını kabul etmiş! In: Habertürk . January 17, 2011, archived from the original on March 20, 2012 ; Retrieved November 4, 2018 (Turkish).

personal data
SURNAME	Dilâçar, Agop
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dilâçar, Agop Martayan; Dilâçar, Hagop Martayan; Martayan, Hagop; Dilâçar, A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Turkish linguist of Armenian origin
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1979
Place of death	Istanbul

[1] Dilâçar, Agop. Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, 2005, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 .

[2] Maxime Gauin: Non-Muslims in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Kemalist Republic: Some Remarks. In: The Journal of Turkish Weekly. June 24, 2011, archived from the original on August 29, 2013 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 . Talas' last Armenian firm on staying. In: Hürriyet . November 8, 2011, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; accessed on November 4, 2018 .

[3] Jens Peter Laut: Turkish as an original language? Wiesbaden 2000, p. 1 note 2.

[4] Düzgün Karadaş: Gazi, önerilen 14. soyadını kabul etmiş! In: Habertürk . January 17, 2011, archived from the original on March 20, 2012 ; Retrieved November 4, 2018 (Turkish).