Wikipedia:

Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey

Statue depicting Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declaring Turkish as the official language of the state and all its institutions.
Enlarge
Statue depicting Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey declaring Turkish as the official language of the state and all its institutions.

Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey was the third ruler of the beylik of Karamanoğlu. He was renowned for declaring Turkish the official language of the state and all its institutions. In his firman dated 13 May 1277, he ordered : "Starting from today, in dervish convent, in council, in the palace, in parliament and in squares, no language other than Turkish is allowed."[1] Before him, The Seljuk elite in Anatolia used Persian in literature and Arabic in government and science. The Turkmen however could not understand these languages. Although not ultimately successful, Mehmed Bey's firman is important because for the first time in Anatolian history, Turkish became the official language.


References

See also


 
 
 

Join the WikiAnswers Q&A community. Post a question or answer questions about "Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey" at WikiAnswers.

 

Copyrights:

Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey" Read more

Search for answers directly from your browser with the FREE Answers.com Toolbar!  
Click here to download now. 

Get Answers your way! Check out all our free tools and products.

On this page: