The Turkish language reform a catastrophic success

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Citation Formats
I. Aydingun and A. Aydıngün, “The Turkish language reform a catastrophic success,” LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY, pp. 645–647, 2002, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/63246.