Editing Turkish language (section)

=== Official status ===
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Turkish is the official language of [[Turkey]] and is one of the official languages of [[Cyprus]]. Turkish has official status in 38 municipalities in [[Kosovo]], including Mamusha,{{r|kosovo}}{{r|sabah-kosovo}}, two in the [[Republic of North Macedonia]] and two in [[Iraq]].<ref name="CIA">{{cite web | url= https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2098.html#mk | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070613004519/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2098.html#mk | url-status= dead | archive-date= June 13, 2007 | publisher= [[CIA World Factbook]] | title= Official regional languages| year= 2002 | access-date= 2016-02-10}}</ref><ref name=guclu/> [[Cyprus]] has requested the [[European Union]] to add Turkish as an official language, as it is one of the two official languages of the country.{{r|cyprus-eu}}

In Turkey, the regulatory body for Turkish is the [[Turkish Language Association]] (''Türk Dil Kurumu'' or TDK), which was founded in 1932 under the name ''Türk Dili Tetkik Cemiyeti'' ("Society for Research on the Turkish Language"). The Turkish Language Association was influenced by the ideology of [[linguistic purism]]: indeed one of its primary tasks was the replacement of loanwords and of foreign grammatical constructions with equivalents of Turkish origin.{{efn|The name TDK itself exemplifies this process. The words ''tetkik'' and ''cemiyet'' in the original name are both Arabic loanwords (the final ''-i'' of ''cemiyeti'' being a Turkish possessive suffix); ''kurum'' is a native Turkish word based on the verb ''kurmak'', "set up, found".{{citation needed|date= July 2014}}}} These changes, together with the adoption of the new [[Turkish alphabet]] in 1928, shaped the [[#Language reform and modern Turkish|modern Turkish language]] spoken today. The TDK became an independent body in 1951, with the lifting of the requirement that it should be presided over by the Minister of Education. This status continued until August 1983, when it was again made into a governmental body in the [[Constitution of Turkey|constitution of 1982]], following the military [[1980 Turkish coup d'état|coup d'état of 1980]].<ref name="TDK History">{{cite web|author= Turkish Language Association|author-link= Turkish Language Association|url= http://www.tdk.gov.tr/TR/BelgeGoster.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFFAAF6AA849816B2EF2858DA18F4388CDD|title= Türk Dil Kurumu – Tarihçe (History of the Turkish Language Association)|access-date= 2007-03-18 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070316024438/http://www.tdk.gov.tr/TR/BelgeGoster.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFFAAF6AA849816B2EF2858DA18F4388CDD | archive-date = March 16, 2007 |url-status = dead|language= tr}}</ref>