STAY PURE, STAY NATIONAL

Each nation wants to protect its national values such as its official language. It is the case in Turkey as well, because Turkish is one of the languages affected by foreign languages every day, so Turkish people and government are seeking effective solutions to prevent this degeneration. Some of the most effective solutions found so far can be divided into three categories which are creating laws, increasing public awareness and forcing media to use pure national language. The first solution which is creating laws is the responsibility of government. The government can create laws both awarding people who use pure official language in their fields of work and punishing people preferring to use unknown, foreign words like people who choose to name their shops with English words. The second solution can be increasing public awareness. In this case we can use songs or TV shows. Especially children can learn anything they hear in songs or popular TV shows. For example, Tarkan's songs. He was awarded for using important words and idioms of Turkish in his songs by TÜRK DİL KURUMU. Finally, media is very very important for language. Media can present a new technology, a new place, event or something else and when it presents the new thing with unknown words and continues to use this foreign name, people use its foreign name permanently and Turkish gains one more foreign word, but if media uses a Turkish word which is not common or new, then people start to use it in their daily lives. In other words media can play a fundamental role in language issues. In conclusion, language is one of the keystones of a nation, it needs to be protected. Therefore, if people practise these solvings Turkish can stay pure.