Turkey is purifying and simplifying her language, which hitherto has been so jumbled as to account for the low standard of education. At the last census 95 per cent, of the population proved illiterate. In a recent law case in England one of the statutes quoted was so old that the only authority for its ever having existed was a fourteenth-century copy of it which is preserved in the Public Records Office in London.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21086, 10 February 1934, Page 9
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74Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21086, 10 February 1934, Page 9
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