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abstract
Lying between Asia and Europe, Turkey has been home to a range of civilizations throughout history, embracing multilingual and multiethnic communities for extended periods of time and giving rise to a deep-rooted tradition of translation in Turkish, rich with practices, concepts, and institutions. Turkish is one of the Turkic languages, from the Altaic family, introduced into Anatolia in the 11th century. It was the language of the principalities that were formed in various parts of Anatolia in the 14th century, and by developing into a written literary language that provided the translation of Arabic religious texts and Persian narrative classics, including elements from these languages, it also served as the official language of the Ottoman Empire, known as Ottoman Turkish. Modern Turkish emerged much later as a result of major revolutionary cultural and linguistic steps taken in the early years of the Turkish Republic, which was founded in 1923 as an independent and secular nation state. Turkish has experienced two major periods of acculturation; the first was with the Eastern (Islamic) culture through Arabic and Persian in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the second was with the Western (Christian) culture mostly through French in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This article offers a summary of translation history in Turkish, which may be divided into three main periods: 1) The Pre-Ottoman Period (13th and 14th centuries), 2)The Ottoman Period (The classical age from the conquest of İstanbul in 1453 to 1600; 17th and 18th centuries; the Tanzimat and its aftermath until the end of the Empire in 1922), 3) The Republican Period (from the foundation in 1923 to present time). Translation studies is an established discipline in Turkey, and the article also throws light on some potential areas of research.
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Fazilet Akdoğan Özdemir |
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2024 |
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Akdoğan Özdemir, Fazilet. 2024. "Turkey/Türkiye" @ ENTI (Encyclopaedia of Translation & Interpreting). AIETI. |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11571800 |
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https://www.aieti.eu/enti/turkey_ENG |