what is the origin of the turkish language?
Altaic languages
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 The name of Turkey ( Turkish : Türkiye ) is based on the ethnonym Türk . The first recorded use of the term " Türk " or " Türük " as an autonym is contained in the Old Turkic inscriptions of the Göktürks ( Celestial Turks ) of Central Asia ( c . 8th century ) . The English name Turkey first appeared in the late 14th century and is derived from Medieval Latin Turchia . 

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 The country 's position between the East and the Mediterranean Sea helped the Turks gain complete control of major trade routes , and an ideal environment allowed plants and animals to flourish . Turkish cuisine was well established by the mid @-@ 1400s , the beginning of the Ottoman Empire 's six hundred @-@ year reign . Yogurt salads , fish in olive oil , and stuffed and wrapped vegetables became Turkish staples . The empire , eventually spanning from Austria to northern Africa , used its land and water routes to import exotic ingredients from all over the world . By the end of the 16th century , the Ottoman court housed over 1 @,@ 400 live @-@ in cooks and passed laws regulating the freshness of food . Since the fall of the empire in World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) and the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 , foreign food such as French hollandaise sauce and western fast food have made their way into the modern Turkish diet . 

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 Turkish cuisine is regarded as one of the most prominent in the world , its popularity is largely owed to the cultural influences of the Ottoman Empire and partly because of its major tourism industry . It is largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine , which can be described as a fusion and refinement of Central Asian , Caucasian , Middle Eastern , Mediterranean and Balkan cuisines . 

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 Geographical name changes in Turkey have been undertaken , periodically , in bulk from 1913 to the present by successive Turkish governments . Thousands of names within the Turkish Republic or the Ottoman Empire have lost or departed from their popular or historic alternatives in favour of recognizably Turkish names , as part of the Turkification policy . The governments have argued that such names are foreign and / or divisive against Turkish unity . Names changed were usually of Armenian , Greek , Laz , Georgian , Bulgarian , Kurdish , Assyrian , or Arabic origin . 

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 Turkish music and literature are examples of a mix of cultural influences . Interaction between the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic world along with Europe contributed to a blend of Turkic , Islamic and European traditions in modern @-@ day Turkish music and literary arts . Turkish literature was heavily influenced by Persian and Arabic literature during most of the Ottoman era . The Tanzimat reforms introduced previously unknown Western genres , primarily the novel and the short story . Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote in several genres simultaneously : for instance , the poet Nâmık Kemal also wrote the important 1876 novel İntibâh ( Awakening ) , while the journalist Şinasi is noted for writing , in 1860 , the first modern Turkish play , the one @-@ act comedy " Şair Evlenmesi " ( The Poet 's Marriage ) . Most of the roots of modern Turkish literature were formed between the years 1896 and 1923 . Broadly , there were three primary literary movements during this period : the Edebiyyât @-@ ı Cedîde ( New Literature ) movement ; the Fecr @-@ i Âtî ( Dawn of the Future ) movement ; and the Millî Edebiyyât ( National Literature ) movement . The first radical step of innovation in 20th century Turkish poetry was taken by Nâzım Hikmet , who introduced the free verse style . Another revolution in Turkish poetry came about in 1941 with the Garip Movement . The mix of cultural influences in Turkey is dramatized , for example , in the form of the " new symbols of the clash and interlacing of cultures " enacted in the novels of Orhan Pamuk , recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature . 
