Tag: Ottoman-Turkish
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An emigrant doctor’s linguistic journey on crutches
Zeynel A. Karcioglu Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Figure 1. A photograph of Kemal Atatürk unveiling the new Turkish alphabet in 1928. I am a linguistic cripple like many other immigrants. When I came to the United States as a foreign medical graduate I was rather young, but the neurocognitive linguistic skills of my Turkish…