Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları (HÜTAD) Dergisi, sa.33, ss.161-189, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
The early twentieth century experienced rapid and radical changes in
linguistics as the multiethnic Ottoman Empire transformed to the nation state of
the Republic of Turkey. Heated debates divided intellectuals into two groups,
those defending the Ottoman language and others in favor of Turkish. A discussion
was initiated in the 1910s after the publication of the treatise Lisanımız (1930) by
Ali Ekrem (Bolayır) Bey where he displayed his opposing views on both the new
Turkish letters and the linguistic simplification activities of the early ’30s. This
article explores Ali Ekrem’s largerly unnoticed defence of Ottoman Turkish and
the response of intellectuals defending the national language.