"Turkey's linguists fight global trend Published Date: August 19, 2007 Challenged to find Turkish equivalents for 'metrosexual' to 'mortgage', dozens of academics comb ancient and modern texts to coin new words which might save the Turkish language from foreign tongues. Launched by modern Turkey's revolutionary founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and charged with excising Arabic and Persian words from the language, the Turkish Language Institute now focuses on keeping the influence of English at bay."
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