Reddit reviews The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success (Oxford Linguistics)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Turkish-Language-Reform-Catastrophic/dp/0199256691

Ataturk has implemented a policy that attempted to purify the language from arabic, persian and to some extent western words.

Er, what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language#Language_reform_and_modern_Turkish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Language_Association

http://r1.chass.utoronto.ca/twpl/pdfs/twpl3/TWPL3_Yukseker.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Turkish-Language-Reform-Catastrophic-linguistics/dp/0199256691

http://countrystudies.us/turkey/25.htm

Read up. For me to explain it would be a waste of time, when there's so many (much better) explanations out there, and it's a fascinating, complicated topic, so if I did try to explain it, I would almost certainly end up failing to do it justice.