TEACHING TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO COGNATE NATIONS

Abstract

The teaching of Turkish language to the cognate Turkish communities constitutes a branch of Turkish teaching and today this issue has become even more important. Although it is possible to take the history of Turkish teaching to foreigners to the Orkhun inscriptions in ancient times, it is more appropriate to say that it gained importance with the dissolution of the USSR and Yugoslavia. On the one hand, these disintegration events led to Turkey's contact with the Turkish communities of many cognate nations. In terms of the values we have in common with the people of these countries, it is of a strategic importance for Turkey to show the necessary sensitivity in teaching Turkish. In 1991, some systems were replaced by new systems that made it compulsory to put in place a systematic study on Turkish education. This research is a descriptive study in which a screening model is used since it is qualitative research. In this study, the development of systematic studies to teach Turkish as a foreign language to the compatriots and their current situation were investigated. These studies have been carried out in Kazakhstan especially, and it has been concluded that for 25-30 years, thousands of people have learned Turkish as a foreign language and have continued to learn Turkish.