Wait a Minute! Istanbul Does Not Speak Turkish: An Analysis of a Story in the Turkish Press from 1937

In the early years of the Turkish Republic, Turkey endeavoured to spread the Turkish language among non-Turkophone Turkish citizens.These efforts were also reflected in the Turkish press of the early Republican years.Asserting that the Turkish press of the early Republican years reflected hitherto Turkish political discourse, this article aims to analyse the argumentation of the letter written by the Turkish Member of Parliament Şeref Aykut and published in the Cumhuriyet newspaper in 1937.The letter problematizes the lack of Turkish language fluency among street vendors in Istanbul in 1937.To analyse the letter, I will combine