Turkish Language Association
Logo of the Turkish Language Institution
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| Abbreviation | TDK |
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| Formation | July 12, 1932 |
| Purpose | regulatory body of the Turkish language |
| Headquarters | Ankara, Turkey |
| Website | www |
The Turkish Language Institution (Turkish: Türk Dil Kurumu, TDK) is the official regulatory body of the Turkish language, founded on July 12, 1932 by the initiative of Atatürk and headquartered in Ankara, Turkey. The Institution acts as the official authority on the language (without any enforcement power), contributes to linguistic research on Turkish and other Turkic languages, and is charged with publishing the official dictionary of the language, Güncel Türkçe Sözlük.
The institution was established on July 12, 1932, under the name Türk Dili Tetkik Cemiyeti (Society for Research on the Turkish Language) by the initiative of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, by Samih Rıfat, Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın, Celâl Sahir Erozan and Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, all prominent names in the literature of the period and members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The head specialist and Secretary General of the institution was the Turkish Armenian linguist Agop Dilaçar starting from 1934, who continued to work in the institution until his death in 1979.
The institution's name was changed to Turkish Language Research Institute in 1934, and it became the Turkish Language Institution in 1936.
The institution heads academic linguistic research in Turkey into the Turkish language and its sister Turkic languages of Central Asia. It publishes Türkçe Sözlük, the official Turkish dictionary, and Yazım Kılavuzu, the Turkish writing guide, in addition to many other specialized dictionaries, linguistics books and several periodicals.
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