Citizen, speak Turkish!

[4][8][9][10][11][12] The campaign has been considered by some authors as a significant contribution to Turkey's sociopolitical process of Turkification.

[13] The reformation of the state schooling system and of language by the compulsory use of demotic Turkish aimed for the linguistic homogenization of society.

[19][20] In 1935, during a speech at the Republican People's Party's fourth congress, Prime Minister İsmet İnönü was quoted as saying, "We will not remain silent.

"[21] The campaign went beyond the measures of mere policy of speaking Turkish, to an outright prevention and prohibition of any other language.

[2][10][22] Signs were held by campaign organizers that proclaimed, "We cannot call Turk to those who do not speak Turkish".

[10] The campaigners placed posters in the major cities of the country with the slogan "Citizen, speak Turkish!"

[9][10] Meanwhile, as the debates in the National Assembly were ongoing, the municipal government of Bursa took the first initiative and began to impose fines to those who spoke a non-Turkish language in public areas.

[4] In 1933, in the town of Mersin, British citizens, speaking French, were reportedly attacked in public.

In 1936, the municipal governments of Tekirdağ, Lüleburgaz, and Edirne passed decrees to fine those who spoke non-Turkish languages in public.