Editing Sun Language Theory (section)

== History ==
The theory counted on the approval of the first president of the Republic of Turkey, [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], who not only gave the theory official backing and material support<ref>
See [[Speros Vryonis]]. ''The Turkish State and History: Clio meets the Grey Wolf, 2nd Ed''. Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1993.</ref> but was also an important contributor to its development.<ref name="LewisTLRbook">{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Geoffrey|title=The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2002|pages=57|author-link=Geoffrey Lewis (scholar)}}</ref> It received the formal support of the Turkish Government during the Third Turkish Language Congress in 1936.<ref>Aytürk, İlker (2004), p.16</ref><ref name=":1" /> During the same congress the vast majority of the international non-Turkish scholars including {{Interlanguage link|Friedrich Giese (Orientalist)|lt=Friedrich Giese|de}} opposed the theory.<ref>Aytürk, İlker (2004), p.18</ref> One of the few non-Turkish linguists who supported the theory was Kvergić.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Laut|first=Jens Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gxr0Bl1rvIcC&q=Hermann+Feodor+Kvergi%C3%A7%22.&pg=PA95|title=Das Türkische als Ursprache?: Sprachwissenschaftliche Theorien in der Zeit des erwachenden türkischen Nationalismus|date=2000|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-04396-0|pages=105|language=de}}</ref>  

=== Influence in Turkey ===
Since the theory claimed that all words had originated from Turkish, it was not deemed necessary anymore to replace all foreign [[Replacement of loanwords in Turkish|loanwords in the language]], a process that had been initiated before.<ref name=":1" /> Initially the theory was taught only in the [[Turkology]] departments of the Turkish Universities, but on the order of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, it was to be taught in all departments as a mandatory assignment.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Göçek|first=Fatma Müge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHcRDAAAQBAJ&dq=ali+cenani&pg=PA613|title=Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence Against the Armenians, 1789-2009|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2015|isbn=978-0-19-933420-9|pages=288|language=en|author-link=Fatma Müge Göçek}}</ref> The Sun Language Theory lost its prominent role shortly after the death of Mustafa Kemal in November 1938<ref>Szurek, Emmanuel (2019), p.266</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ertürk|first=Nergis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJTPlrRH7F4C|title=Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey|date=2011-10-19|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-974668-2|pages=103|language=en}}</ref> and was not even mentioned in the next Turkish Language Congress in 1942.<ref>Ertürk, Nergis (2011), p.99 </ref>

In the 1990s, definitions and comments were made by some authors{{who?|date=May 2024}} about the founding principles of the Republic of Turkey, its actions in its first years, and Atatürk's Principles, such as the official state ideology and the denial of ethnicity, by citing the Sun Language Theory studies.<ref>''Paradigmanın İflası, Resmi İdeolojinin Eleştirisine Giriş'', [[Fikret Başkaya]], 1991, ISBN 975-8449-16-8</ref><ref>''Türk Tarih Tezi, Güneş-Dil Teorisi ve Kürt Sorunu'', [[İsmail Beşikçi]], 1991</ref> For this purpose, it was written that irrational rumors were fabricated about the Sun Language Theory and the Turkish History Thesis supported by Atatürk and that Atatürk was wanted to be shown as "a person who believes in nonsense". It is argued that these are purposeful publications made under the influence of the postmodernist wave, with the aim of criticizing the Atatürk Revolutions and their effects.<ref>Türk tarih tezi ve [[Mu kıtası]], Kemal Şenoğlu, ISBN 975-343-473-1</ref>{{Vague|date=May 2024}}