President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “It is a source of pride for us to see the increasing potential of Turkish in all areas from education to culture, from commerce to communication. We will continue to uphold our Turkish language with an understanding that embraces all the richness of our language.”
President Erdoğan issued a message on the occasion of the September 26, Turkish Language Day.
Stating that Turkish, one of the most time-honoured and widespread languages of the world, demonstrated its value, richness, and exclusivity with different patois and dialects today in broad geography, President Erdoğan said that the Turkish nation owed its thousands of years of written cultural history, uninterrupted statehood tradition and accumulation of universal civilization to the Turkish language as well.
Emphasizing that language, which was the cornerstone of the culture and civilization, was undoubtedly the most determining element of a nation's identity and nature, Erdoğan underlined that it was very difficult for a society that had lost its language to protect its other values.
“We should keep Turkish alive in all spheres of life with all its depth and richness”
In his message, President Erdoğan made the following remarks:
“While we exert efforts to go beyond the level of contemporary civilization in science, technology, commerce, and in all areas, we also need to uphold our language as ‘our national spirit’. We should keep the Turkish language alive in all spheres of our lives with all its depth and richness with the awareness that a language is a nation's most important tool to make a connection to its past and walk toward the future. The most important step in bequeathing the rich language we inherited to the future generations will be to take the utmost care to use Turkish correctly and finely in all fields from daily life to social media platforms.
The importance of the Turkish language, which is spoken in Turkey, as well as in wide geography, extending from Europe to the depths of Asia, is better understood by the day. It is a source of pride for us to see the increasing potential of Turkish in all areas from education to culture, and commerce to communications. We will continue to uphold the Turkish language with an understanding that embraces all the richness of our language. I would like to take this opportunity to wish that the September 26 Turkish Language Day may enable our nation to be better aware of our language.