Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

We hosted Istanbul Deputy Ekrem ERDEM at our University with a seminar titled "Our Identity of Our Language"

"Our language is our identity" seminar by organized Turkish Language and Literature took place with the participation of the AK Party Istanbul deputy and Turkey Language and Literature Association President Ekrem ERDEM on April 9, Monday at Istinye University Topkapi Campus. Ekrem ERDEM, who started his speech by emphasizing the importance of greeting, which is the beginning of oral communication, said that the first condition for success is to use the mother tongue well. Ekrem ERDEM, reminding us that language is our past, present, and future, said: "We can speak, think and agree with language. If the language exists we can be a nation" Describing the structure and origin of Turkish in detail Ekrem ERDEM, the additive structure of our language is appropriate to derive new words, he said. Ekrem ERDEM emphasized that we should save our language from foreign words in every field and mentioned the importance of using the "F" keyboard in this context.