The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success.(Review)

Middle Eastern Studies | October 1, 2000| | Copyright

The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success by Geoffrey Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.x + 168, bibliography, indices. 35.00 [pounds sterling]/$60.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-823856-8.

The subject of the `language revolution' (dil devrimi) in Turkey is both highly contentious and little understood. Easily one of the most controversial efforts at centralized, nationalistic and government-led meddling in linguistic history, the campaign to rid the Turkish language of its Arabo-Persian script, vocabulary and constructions waged in the Turkish ...

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