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Turkish Psychological Association
The Turkish Psychological Association (in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Türk Psikologlar Dernegi''; acronym is the TPD) was founded in 1976. Its headquarters is in Ankara, Turkey. Objectives, ethics and projects The TPD follows several main objectives: * Providing help to psychologists and psychology organizations to reach contemporary level * Protecting the professional rights of Psychologists and solving their problems in Turkey * Facilitating union, unity and cooperation between psychologists in Turkey * Facilitating the contribution of psychology science to the public benefit * Identifying the ethical standards for the profession and maintaining these standards in the highest level Its code of ethics was adopted in 2004. It was created by Yesim Korkut (PhD), Serra Muderrisoglu (PhD) and Melis Tanik (PsyD) in Istanbul. The LGBTI Force In June 2014, the TPD launched a special unit to protect LGBT citizens from homophobia, transphobia and other forms of discrimination in soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. The distinctive characteristics of the Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
