Bu konu; İçişleri Bakanlığına, Millî Eğitim Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığına ve Yükseköğretim Kurulu Başkanlığına duyurularak Atatürk'ü anma toplantılarında diğer konularla birlikte, bir konuşmacı tarafından işlenmesi önerimiz yetkililer tarafından benimsenmiş ve mahallî kuruluşlara yayınlanmıştır.

Avrupa devletlerinin Afrika ve Asya ülkeleri üzerindeki baskılarının artmasına ve yaygınlaşmasına yol açan Birinci Dünya Savaşı, Türklerin saygın, haysiyetli ve bağımsız bir millet olarak yaşamalarını ciddî bir şekilde tehdit etmekteydi. Fakat onlar şartların gerektirdiği adamı Mustafa Kemal'de buldular. Azimkâr, kendini vatanına adamış, zeki ve ileri görüşlü Mustafa Kemal, insanüstü bir cesaret, büyük bir soğukkanlılık ve sarsılmaz bir güven ile, Millî Kurtuluş Hareketinin ve yeniden bir millet yaratmanın ve onu geliştirmenin peşinde getirdiği çeşitli meseleleri çözebilmiş, korkunç engelleri aşmış, baş döndürücü görevleri başarmıştır.

In the beginning of the sixteenth century the Indian Ocean witnessed the course of events which greatly effected the economies of the Mediterranean as well as the Ottoman and Arab countries. The Portuguese reached the Western India at the end of the fifteenth century and established themselves at various strategic points around the Indian Ocean, seeking to dominate and shift the flow of trade which had been running through the Red Sea and the Gulf to the Mediterranean world for many centuries. On the other hand, the Ottomans became a sea power as well as the land after the conquest of Constantinople; and conquered Egypt in 1517 taking control of the Red Sea. Towards the middle of the sixteenth century, in the time of Suleyman the Magnificent, they took Baghdad and made a direct contact with the Gulf, thus establishing themselves at various important points around the Arabian Peninsula. So became the two empires, Catolic Portuguese and Sunni Ottoman, vis-a-vis, in the waters of the Indian Ocean, drawing themselves far from their capitals.

The intention of this bibliography, which has been some years in the making, was to pull together all the modern linguistic work on which has been done on Turkish, where by modern linguistic is meant work in the generative-transformational paradigm, and its offshoots and extensions.

In my study entitled "The Psychology and Categories of Name Giving Among the Turkish Peoples" (Hungaro - Turcica, Budapest 1976, pp. 207-223) I divided Turkic personal names into six major groups, and within these groups further 14 categories of men's names and a couple of women's names were distinguished. A very important semantic category of Turkic names is that of the theophoric names. In my Onomasticon Turcicum in preparation, more than sixty data are collected from different ages and different Turkic peoples for the name Töngri - berdi "God - giyen" (in their corresponding forms), partly they are names of historical persons. The name of "God" could be substituted by different words, thus e. g. Ogan - berdi (A. v. Le Coq, Türkische Namen in Indien: GarbeFestgabe, 1927), in the Islamic cultural sphere Allah - virdi (Abramzon, Rozdenie kirgizskogo rebenka: Sbornik Muzeja Antropologii i Etnografii XII, 1949, p. 107) and Quday - berdi (Abramzon, I . c.). The latter two names served as basis for Russian patronymika such as Allahberdiev (ein Chivaer in 1793: A. f. w. K. v. R. XVIII, p. 352), Quday - Berdiev (Turkmen name in 188o: Grodekov, Vojna IV. Pri1o2enie, p. 39). The name Töngri - berdi itself has a variant Tagribirdi on Arabic soil, e. g. the great historian of the Mamelukes was called Abul Mahasin Ibn Tagribirdi (1411-1469). In the Arabic chronicle of this Ibn Tagribirdi, in the period between 1441 and 1469, sixteen such names are registered, and the same abundance of data is characteristic of another famous Mameluke historian Ibn Iyyâs.

The development of vowel harmony in the Turkic languages is far from clear in detail. One of the most crucial issues is the genesis of Turkish labial harmony. The current view of this phenomenon is highly inconsistent and the matter should be reconsidered, so much the more as the development assumed plays a central part in the history of Anatolian Turkish, i.a. by offering criteria for its periodization.