{"id":4643,"date":"2019-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/en\/sevgi-ozel-press-language\/"},"modified":"2019-09-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T00:00:00","slug":"sevgi-ozel-press-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media4democracy.org\/en\/sevgi-ozel-press-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevgi \u00d6zel \u201cPress Language\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Financed by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the Association of Journalists \u201cMedia for Democracy\/Democracy for Media\u201d programme hosted Sevgi \u00d6zel at its Press House, in Ankara. \u00d6zel talked about common mistakes made while using the Turkish language, and how it reflects on the press.<\/span><\/p>\n

SULTAN YAVUZ- Financed by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the Association of Journalists \u201cMedia for Democracy\/Democracy for Media\u201d programme hosted Sevgi \u00d6zel, who is renowned for her research in language. \u00d6zel, whose talked was titled \u201cPress Language\u201d touched upon common mistakes in young journalists in the press make while using Turkish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

M4D Assistant Director Seva \u00dclman Erten made the opening speech with these words:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cToday we are hosting Sevgi \u00d6zel, who has dedicated her life to the proper usage of the Turkish language and has conducted scientific research in this domain. After finishing her degree in literature at Ankara University Faculty of Language, History and Geography she began working for the Turkish Language Association where she researched the Turkish language of Turkey alongside orthography with other linguists. Following the closure of the Turkish Language Association which was founded by Atat\u00fcrk, \u00d6zel started working as an editor for \u00dcmit Publishing and U\u011fur Mumcu Investigative Journalism Foundation. \u00d6zel was one of the 34 people to have founded the Dil Derne\u011fi (The Language Association) following their departure from the Turkish Language Association. \u00d6zel has written many books some of which are \u201cAfilli Mavallar\u201d, \u201cDil Kiri, El Kiri\u201d \u201cDilimde T\u00fcy Bitti\u201d, \u201cDilleri Uzun\u201d, \u201c\u0130ktidar Benim, Ne \u0130stersem S\u00f6ylerim\u201d \u201cT\u00fcrk\u00e7enin Renkleri\u201d, \u201cBaba \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc\u2019den Erdal \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc\u2019ye Mektruplar\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00d6zel, \u201cWe are going through a period of a cluster of lies\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00d6zel did not only talk about press language, she also remarked that writing used to be more important for journalists and television had remained in the background. Politicians are watched on the TV the most remarked \u00d6zel and added the following about the 9<\/span>th<\/span> President of the Republic S\u00fcleyman Demirel \u201cOne of the biggest strains my generation felt was because of Demirel. He used to love using words from Ottoman Turkish and whenever he did the press would call me. Rather than focusing on what Demirel was trying to convey, the press would focus on the meaning of that Ottoman Turkish word, thus they would stray away from the actual point.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are going through a period of a cluster of lies remarked \u00d6zel who also said there are around 200 books waiting to be published and among these books are works of C\u00fcneyt Arcay\u00fcrek, Erbil Tu\u015falp and Tuncay \u00d6zkan who did not need any editing since they are very articulate and meticulous writers. \u00d6zel commented that young journalists make many language mistakes in their books:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany things changed with the alterations in the education system over the past 15 years. There are many idioms and proverbs about language and dialects but the youth never use them. There are so many words that have entered our language from translation and these reflect on the language the press uses. This is what hurts me the most\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst field of education is Turkish. Following generations will be talking in this \u201ctranslated language\u201d, many young people working in the press have already begun\u2026 We can see how bad the education of the Turkish language is by simply observing young MPs in parliament. This misuse of language has permeated into industry, politics and the press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve walked through all the alleys of the Turkish language, I know its music so well\u2026 For older generations the main goal was to use the Turkish language correctly. Many of these people wrote about and politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Many words are being misused\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to \u00d6zel, following September 12<\/span>th<\/span> publishers mainly published science-fiction but nowadays most channels broadcast cooking shows. \u00d6zel said \u201cMost housewives learn English and French terms for cooking, that\u2019s how they talk about recipes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00d6zel also remarked that journalist use the word \u201cperformance\u201d a lot and commented on their mistakes using the Turkish language:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou see many people using the word performance in magazines, game shows and on the news. People mix up a lot of words as well, especially \u201cMahzur\u201d (objection), \u201cMahsur\u201d (confined, trapped) and \u201cmaruz\u201d (subjected to). I see this a lot in the news. Of course, you can always use the Turkish word for \u201ctahliye olmak\u201d (to be released from jail). The youth use many Ottoman Turkish words without knowing their meanings\u2026 If people knew the meaning of the word it\u2019s a personal preference, but if they don\u2019t I think that\u2019s something that needs to be criticized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such usage as \u201cKay\u0131p etmek\u201d, its proper usage is \u201ckaybetmek\u201d (to lose); it\u2019s wrong to use \u201cdevir etmek\u201d, its proper usage is \u201cdevretmek\u201d (hand over)\u2026 The other day I heard \u201cThere was an earthquake shake in Denizli\u201d some people say \u201cFlood waters\u201d. These are all wrong. Another mistake we all make is \u201ce\u015fyalar\u201d (furniture) and \u201caidatlar\u201d (subscriptions) these are already plural.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkish is not a language that is written the way it\u2019s spoken, or spoken the way it\u2019s written, it\u2019s spoken \u201cto a large extent\u201d the way it is written. There is no such language in the world (that is spoken exactly the way it\u2019s written) but this aspect is a distinction of the Turkish language. Another distinctive attribute is that Turkish has a musical quality to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

English words<\/span><\/p>\n

Sevgi \u00d6zel also mentioned that pronouncing Turkish letters in English has become commonplace, especially on television. \u00d6zel also stated that people tell their clothing size in English:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSaying body sizes in English spread to television through the press. Despite having hard feelings about it, TRT had standards when it came to language. TRT would invite specialists such as myself to supervise the language used in films dubbed into Turkish. Ottoman Turkish was used quite a lot, but at least words were pronounced properly. Now you\u2019ve got sentences that start with \u201cI\u2019m afraid\u201d especially in the news. My suggestion to young people is, you won\u2019t be able to solve this problem with a grammar book but use a dictionary and focus on speaking correctly; read authors such as Ya\u015far Kemal, Sait Faik Abas\u0131yan\u0131k and F\u00fcruzan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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