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The Turks
• First known from Chinese accounts
• First known use of “Turk” in 6th century
• Arrived in Anatolia late 11th century
• Altaic language related to Mongolian– Not related to European languages– Not related to Arabic
• Agglutinative language: forms words by repeated addition of endings (compare English “friendliness”)
The Turkish Language
• Bulmak = find
• Bulunmak = to be found
• Bulunduk = having been found
• Bulundugunuz = your having been found
• Yer = place
• Bulundugunuz yer =The your-having-been-found place =
You are here
The Young Turks
• Mehmed Talat Pasha – prime minister
• İsmail Enver Pasha – minister of war
• Ahmed Djemal Pasha – minister of navy
• Effectively ruled Empire during First World War
• Allied with Germany during World War I
• Fled Empire after the war
Post-Ottoman Changes• Sultan deposed 1922
• Caliphate and Sharia abolished 1924
• Language Reforms 1930’s– Adoption of modified Roman Alphabet– Purge of Arabic and Persian words
• Islam no longer official religion
• Women gain vote and right to hold office 1934
Pluses and Minuses
• Upside– Turkey deliberately aligns with the West– Long-overdue reforms enacted– Dramatic increase in literacy
• Downside– Language reforms made Ottoman literature
inaccessible– Distorted historical model sometimes used to
justify reforms