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Dear aluette,
welcome to the TurkishClass forums. People who have visited Turkia will realise that Turks are much more close to European culture and European values than the Asian ones.
Turkish people are very much like Italian people. We are also not very different than the Greek.
Since the fountadion of the Turkish Republic in 1923 Turkia has turned its face towards Europe. Since then our aim is to find the modernism no matter in which part it is on the world.
Atatürk has set the aim of the Turkish Nation: Çağdaş uygarlık seviyesine ulaşmak. "To reach the most modern level of civilization."
He wanted to see the Turkish Republic competing with the most modern nations. Many people including me have now the same dream.
In the past 83 years of the Republic we have gone a lot, maybe so much it would take other nations 500 years, but we still have a long way to go.
Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic has introduced many revolutions to change the nation. One of them was the change of the Arabic alphabet in 1928.
I don't know if you could possibly understand how I feel when looking at these letters below now. The change was so dramatic, it was like a dream, like a journey from the darkness into the light.
ﺍ ﺀ ﺏ ﭖ ﺕ ﺙ ﺝ ﭺ ﺡ ﺥ ﺩ ﺫ ﺭ ﺯ ﮊ ﺱ ﺵ ﺹ ﺽ ﻁ ﻅ ﻉ ﻍ ﻑ ﻕ ﻙ ﮒ ﯓ ﻝ ﻡ ﻥ ﻭ ﻩ ﻻ ﻯ
a b c ç d e f g ğ h ı i j k l m n o ö p r s ş t u ü v y z
http://www.business-with-turkey.com/tourist-guide/turkish_language.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_language
Quote:
http://www.ataturk.com/index2.html
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic and its first President, stands as a towering figure of the 20th Century. Among the great leaders of history, few have achieved so much in so short period, transformed the life of a nation as decisively, and given such profound inspiration to the world at large.
Emerging as a military hero at the Dardanelles in 1915, he became the charismatic leader of the Turkish national liberation struggle in 1919. He blazed across the world scene in the early 1920s as a triumphant commander who crushed the invaders of his country. Following a series of impressive victories against all odds, he led his nation to full independence. He put an end to the antiquated Ottoman dynasty whose tale had lasted more than six centuries - and created the Republic of Turkey in 1923, establishing a new government truly representative of the nation's will.
As President for 15 years, until his death in 1938, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk introduced a broad range of swift and sweeping reforms - in the political, social, legal, economic, and cultural spheres - virtually unparalleled in any other country.
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