Ottoman course at Parliament

TBMM [The Grand National Assembly of Turkey]– Coşkun Ergül

AK Party deputies are learning Ottoman Turkish at the course opened in the Parliament of Turkey. The course has started with the initiative of AK deputy of Adiyaman province Mr İbrahim Halil Fırat. 36 AK deputies attend the course taught by Mr Said Yavuz, general coordinator of Ottoman Turkish courses, and other teachers of Hayrât Foundation.

Started with the initiative of AK deputy of Adiyaman province Mr İbrahim Halil Fırat, 36 AK deputies attend the course taught by Mr Said Yavuz, general coordinator of Ottoman Turkish courses, and other teachers of Hayrât Foundation.

The deputies are taught both to read and write Ottoman Turkish. Up to now they have read many pieces and poems including the “To the Çanakkale Martyrs” in Ottoman.

AK deputy Mr Fırat told that 250 thousand people got Ottoman course completion certificates from among 330 thousand applicants since 2014 when the protocol between the Ministry of National Education and Hayrât Foundation was signed.

Mr Fırat said that he applied to the speaker’s office of the Parliament to open Ottoman courses under the roof of TBMM.

Noting that they aimed that the MPs learn the language of their ancestors, Mr Fırat told that Ankara representative of Hayrât Foundation, Mr Said Yavuz, and other teachers were teaching at the course.He added,

“We think that Ottoman Turkish is very important to connect the past and today or tomorrow. We attach importance to Ottoman Turkish in order to be able to read our old manuscripts, the writings on Ottoman coins, banknotes, on land registries, in mosques, or in madrasas, and hand down them to our new generations. That is why we arrange this course, and our friends are really interested. We learn Ottoman Turkish together with 36 friends.”