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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Official regulatory body of the Turkish language</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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regulators">Regulatory body</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish language</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk_Boulevard" title="Atatürk Boulevard">Atatürk Boulevard</a> No.: 217, <a href="/wiki/%C3%87ankaya,_Ankara_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Çankaya, Ankara (district)">Çankaya</a>, 0668 <a href="/wiki/Ankara" title="Ankara">Ankara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Official language </div></th><td class="infobox-data">Turkish</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">President</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Osman Mert<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk" title="Mustafa Kemal Atatürk">Mustafa Kemal Atatürk</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Samih_Yaln%C4%B1zgil" title="Samih Yalnızgil">Sâmih Rif'at (Yalnızgil)</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ru%C5%9Fen_E%C5%9Fref_%C3%9Cnayd%C4%B1n" title="Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın">Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cel%C3%A2l_Sahir_Erozan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Celâl Sahir Erozan (page does not exist)">Celâl Sahir Erozan</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Yakup_Kadri_Karaosmano%C4%9Flu" title="Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu">Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu</a><sup id="cite_ref-TDK-Presidents_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TDK-Presidents-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tdk.gov.tr">www<wbr />.tdk<wbr />.gov<wbr />.tr</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Turkish Language Association</b> (<a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>: <i lang="tr">Türk Dil Kurumu</i>, <b>TDK</b>) is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_language_regulators" title="List of language regulators">regulatory body</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish language</a>, founded on 12 July 1932 by the initiative of <a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk" title="Mustafa Kemal Atatürk">Mustafa Kemal Atatürk</a> and headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Ankara" title="Ankara">Ankara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>. The Institution acts as the official authority on the language, contributes to linguistic research on Turkish and other <a href="/wiki/Turkic_languages" title="Turkic languages">Turkic languages</a>, and is charged with publishing the official dictionary of the language, <i>Güncel Türkçe Sözlük</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Language_Association&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meeting_of_the_Turkish_Language_Association,_1933,_Dolmabah%C3%A7e_Palace.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Meeting_of_the_Turkish_Language_Association%2C_1933%2C_Dolmabah%C3%A7e_Palace.jpg/220px-Meeting_of_the_Turkish_Language_Association%2C_1933%2C_Dolmabah%C3%A7e_Palace.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Meeting_of_the_Turkish_Language_Association%2C_1933%2C_Dolmabah%C3%A7e_Palace.jpg/330px-Meeting_of_the_Turkish_Language_Association%2C_1933%2C_Dolmabah%C3%A7e_Palace.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Meeting_of_the_Turkish_Language_Association%2C_1933%2C_Dolmabah%C3%A7e_Palace.jpg/440px-Meeting_of_the_Turkish_Language_Association%2C_1933%2C_Dolmabah%C3%A7e_Palace.jpg 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="335" /></a><figcaption>1933 meeting of the Association</figcaption></figure> <p>A Language Council (<a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>: <i>Dil Heyeti</i>) which was established in March 1926 following approval of a draft bill presented by <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_National_Education_(Turkey)" title="Ministry of National Education (Turkey)">Education Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Necati" title="Mustafa Necati">Mustafa Necati</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Grand_National_Assembly_of_Turkey" title="Grand National Assembly of Turkey">Turkish parliament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1928 it was tasked with the latinization of the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_alphabet" title="Turkish alphabet">Turkish alphabet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Language Council would be put under the supervision of a Central Bureau, in which also <a href="/wiki/Ahmet_Cevat_Emre" title="Ahmet Cevat Emre">Ahmet Cevat Emre</a>, later the head of the Grammar and Syntax commission of the TDK would take a seat in.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon request of Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/%C4%B0smet_%C4%B0n%C3%B6n%C3%BC" title="İsmet İnönü">Ismet Paşa</a> (Inönü) the Language Council attempted to translate the French dictionary <i><a href="/wiki/Petit_Larousse" title="Petit Larousse">Petit Larousse</a></i> into Turkish.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The council then assigned certain words from the new Turkish dictionary to popular Turkish authors and professors of the <a href="/wiki/Istanbul_University" title="Istanbul University">Istanbul University</a>, the only Turkish university at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The professors refused the use of the proposed neologisms which caused some protest by the Language Council to Ismet Paşa.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The language council was dissolved in July 1931, after the Turkish parliament canceled their funds over the lack of results.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also years after having been tasked to translate the French Larousse, there was no Turkish translation of it.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Language_Association&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foundation">Foundation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Language_Association&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Foundation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The TDK was established on 12 July 1932, initially under the name <i>Türk Dili Tetkik Cemiyeti</i> (Society for Research on the Turkish Language) by the initiative of Atatürk, president of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Turkey" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Turkey">Republic of Turkey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samih_Yaln%C4%B1zgil" title="Samih Yalnızgil">Samih Rıfat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ru%C5%9Fen_E%C5%9Fref_%C3%9Cnayd%C4%B1n" title="Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın">Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın</a>, Celâl Sahir Erozan and <a href="/wiki/Yakup_Kadri_Karaosmano%C4%9Flu" title="Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu">Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu</a>, all prominent names in the literature of the period and members of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_National_Assembly_of_Turkey" title="Grand National Assembly of Turkey">Grand National Assembly of Turkey</a>. Following the establishment of the TDK, <a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk" title="Mustafa Kemal Atatürk">Mustafa Kemal Atatürk</a> called for the purification of the Turkish language, in order to remove the "yoke of the foreign tongues“.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first president of the association was <a href="/wiki/Samih_Yaln%C4%B1zgil" title="Samih Yalnızgil">Samih Rıfat</a>, the first secretary general was <a href="/wiki/Ru%C5%9Fen_E%C5%9Fref_%C3%9Cnayd%C4%B1n" title="Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın">Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the head specialist was <a href="/wiki/Abdulkadir_Inan" title="Abdulkadir Inan">Abdülkadir İnan</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the head western languages specialist was <a href="/wiki/Agop_Dil%C3%A2%C3%A7ar" title="Agop Dilâçar">Agop Dilaçar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The institution's name was changed to <i>Turkish Language Research Institute</i> in 1934, and it became the Turkish Language Institution in 1936.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Functions">Functions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Language_Association&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Functions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The institution heads academic linguistic research in Turkey into the Turkish language and its sister <a href="/wiki/Turkic_languages" title="Turkic languages">Turkic languages</a> of <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>. In the 1930s the <a href="/wiki/Hittite_language" title="Hittite language">Hittite</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sumerian_language" title="Sumerian language">Sumerian</a> languages were also included into the group of Turkish languages, while the origin of <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European</a> and <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic language</a> was disputed.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the same time, the Association led campaigns to replace the <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> <a href="/wiki/Loanword" title="Loanword">loanwords</a> in the Turkish language. During the 3rd Congress the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Language_Theory" title="Sun Language Theory">Sun Language Theory</a> was presented according to which the Ural-Altaic, Indo-European and Semitic languages had their source in the Turkish language. And since Turkish was the source of all languages, loanwords could further on persist and French loanwords were adopted more frequently.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Recently however, the attention of the institution has been turned towards the persistent infiltration of Turkish, like many other languages, with <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> words, as a result of the globalization process. Since the 1980s, TDK campaigns for the use of Turkish equivalents of these new English loanwords. It also has the task of coining such words from existing Turkish roots if no such equivalents exist, and actively promoting the adoption of these new coinages instead of their English equivalents in the daily lives of the Turkish population.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> TDK claims it doesn't coin Turkish equivalent words for foreign words which are already rooted deep down in the language such as "kalem (pencil,pen [from Arabic]),kitap (book [from Arabic]), radyo (radio [from French]), televizyon (television [from French])" but recently borrowed words such as "computer (bilgisayar [lit. information counter]), icetea (buzlu çay [lit. tea with ice]), flash memory (taşınabilir bellek [lit. portable memory])".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Turkey currently doesn't have a legal framework to enforce by law the recommendations of TDK in public life<sup id="cite_ref-:1_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (contrary to <a href="/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise" class="mw-redirect" title="Académie française">Académie française</a> in <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, for example). On the other hand, there is a bill that is in consideration in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey at the moment that would give TDK and the Ministries of Education and Culture the tools to enforce legally the labelling of Turkish equivalents of these words next to their foreign counterparts, particularly in the news media, advertising, and commercial communications.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (September 2020)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Several members of the TDK support the implementation of a pure Turkish for daily use.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 134">: 134 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Language_Association&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Turkish_Language_Association_building.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Turkish_Language_Association_building.jpg/220px-Turkish_Language_Association_building.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Turkish_Language_Association_building.jpg/330px-Turkish_Language_Association_building.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Turkish_Language_Association_building.jpg/440px-Turkish_Language_Association_building.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Turkish Language Association building, Ankara</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1935 it published an <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish" title="Ottoman Turkish">Ottoman Turkish</a>/Pure Turkish dictionary to show the improvements of the language reform.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It publishes <i>Türkçe Sözlük</i>, the official Turkish dictionary,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Yazım Kılavuzu</i>, the Turkish writing guide, in addition to many other specialized dictionaries, linguistics books and several periodicals. </p><p>The institution, in addition to maintaining <i>Güncel Türkçe Sözlük</i> has published more than 850 linguistics related books, mainly consisting of studies on <a href="/wiki/Turkic_languages" title="Turkic languages">Turkic languages</a>, specialized dictionaries, <a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philological</a> books, and works of <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>. </p><p>TDK also publishes <i>Türk Dili</i>, a journal on Turkish literature, since 1951, <i>Belleten</i>, the annual journal on Turkic languages, since 1953, and <i>Türk Dünyası</i>, another periodical published twice a year on Turkish language and literature since 1996. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Language_Association&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The TDK allegedly changed the definition of the word "çapulcu" (plunderer) to "the one who acts deviant against the order, the one who ruins the order", after <a href="/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan" title="Recep Tayyip Erdoğan">Erdoğan</a> used the word against protesters in the <a href="/wiki/Gezi_Park_protests" title="Gezi Park protests">Gezi Park events</a>, this has caused controversy. The change has been criticized stating that the TDK was unsuccessful in finding the relationship between the word and its root "çapul" (plunder) along with other synonyms such as "plaçkacı" and "yağmacı", both meaning "looter".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TDK rejected the claims that the word had been changed.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Language_Association&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hasan_Eren" title="Hasan Eren">Hasan Eren</a>, head of the TLA from 1983 to 1993</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Historical_Society" title="Turkish Historical Society">Turkish Historical Society</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Language_Association&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tdk.gov.tr/tdk/kurumsal/baskan/">"Türk Dil Kurumu Başkanı"</a>. <i>TDK Official</i> (in Turkish). 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