COMMON ALPHABET DISCUSSIONS AND SOLUTIONS IN TURKISH REPUBLICS

Abstract

Turks used the Arabic alphabet between 10-19 centuries. Millions of works that fill libraries were written with
these letters. When Soviet Russia invaded Turkish lands in 1917, the alphabets of the Turks under its rule were
changed, first to Latin, and then to a different Cyrillic alphabet after a short while. The Turkish Republics, which declared their independence with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, separated from the Russians and started to
form their national states. Many of them abandoned the Cyrillic alphabet, which they had to use for seventy years, and
switched to the Latin alphabet. However, despite all efforts, a common alphabet could not be established among the
Turks.
Today, the idea of creating a common alphabet among the Turkic Republics has come to the fore. Accordingly, it
has been transferred to the Latin alphabet in Kazakhstan. If the reasons behind the creation of a common written language are put forward in all aspects, it will be an important turning point in terms of Turkish culture. For this reason, the
common alphabet problem and its solutions are discussed in the article