Linguist Yusuf Çotuksöken met our students as part of Turkish Language Day events.

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26 September 2025

With the encouragement and participation of Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the First Turkish Language Congress met on 26 September 1932, and the proposal to celebrate its opening day, 26 September, as “Turkish Language Day” was accepted.

On this special day, linguist, lexicographer, man of letters, essayist and critic Yusuf Çotuksöken met our students. We thank our guest, who inspired our students with a talk on the richness, beauty and power of our language and the importance of using it correctly.

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Yusuf Çotuksöken was born in Eskişehir in 1947 and graduated from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Istanbul University's Faculty of Letters in 1970. He taught literature in high schools and later taught Turkish at Istanbul, Beykent and Maltepe universities.

He wrote linguistics and literature entries for several encyclopaedias, including Meydan Larousse.
His works include studies of Turkish proverbs, idioms, suffixes and roots, and dictionaries of language and literature terms and of synonyms and antonyms.
His study of Nasreddin Hodja anecdotes won the 1996 Truva Culture and Arts Association Folklore Award.

Source: Türk Edebiyatı – Yusuf Çotuksöken

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