Student Oath (Turkey)

Yasam; küçüklerimi korumak, büyüklerimi saymak, yurdumu, milletimi özümden çok sevmektir.

Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) used the phrase "Ne mutlu Türküm diyene" (How happy is the one who says "I am a Turk") in his speech delivered for the 10th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey, on October 29, 1933 (Republic Day)[2] In preparation for the August 30th 50th Anniversary of the battle against Greek forces at Dumlupınar in 1922, the Student Oath was revised, and included as its last phrase "Ne mutlu Türküm diyene" (How happy is the one who says "I am a Turk") from the 1933 speech.

Yasam, küçüklerimi korumak, büyüklerimi saymak, yurdumu, milletimi özümden çok sevmektir.

Ey bu günümüzü sağlayan, Ulu Atatürk; açtığın yolda, kurduğun ülküde, gösterdiğin amaçta hiç durmadan yürüyeceğime ant içerim.

O Great Atatürk, who had created our life of today; on the path that you have paved, in the country that you established, I swear to walk incessantly with the purposes that you have set.

İlkem, küçüklerimi korumak, büyüklerimi saymak, yurdumu, milletimi, özümden çok sevmektir.

[4] In October 2018, the Council of State, the highest administrative court, decided that the Student Oath had been a well-established practice and that the justification for removing it in 2013 by the AKP had been insufficient.

[4] The decision came after legal action by Turkey's Education and Science Worker's Union (Türk Eğitim-Sen).

Many opponents of the AKP considered banning the oath to be really against the secularist policies of Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

[citation needed] On 4 March 2021, the high chamber of the Council of State agreed with the appeal demand from the Ministry of Education and abolished the recitation of the Student Oath again.

Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party, criticized the decision and compared it to a pin-pulled bomb.