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  • Did you know... that due to a campaign in Turkey, speaking a language other than Turkish was illegal in many parts of the country?
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Really?

"British citizens who were speaking French were reportedly attacked in public." IMO they have deserved it; how come speak French when you have a much easier language -like English- to use? :-) Or were they speaking French simply not to speak Turkish and they asked British citizenship? Or what? Every time I go to France and try to communicate in English they insist in speaking French to me, although I see that they understand I do not speak it and that they also understand what I am saying. Maybe I run into people that come from Mersin. BTW there is a saying in Turkish (maybe originating from this event) like "Herkes gider Mersin'e, onlar gider tersine." Possibly this was related to the fact that everybody in the new Turkish Republic was happy with the revolution but some wanted to go back to XVIth century capitulations to French speaking local people (called Tatlısu Frenkleri, for pretending to be Westerners without being so). --E4024 (talk) 16:41, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

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