LANGUAGE POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AGAINST THE NUMBER TURKISH PEOPLES

Russia's language policy against non-Russian indigenous peoples can be divided into two periods; Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union. During Tsarist Russia, the state pursued a policy of “Russification” of indigenous peoples in war-torn areas, believing that a gradual change of identity would occur spontaneously after forcibly Christianizing people and giving them Russian names. Therefore, it would be wrong to say that the state pursued a language policy during this period, such as the application of the Russian language to minorities. For this reason, some Tatars now speak Russian and have Russian names and surnames. During the USSR, it was a period of state pressure on the native languages of the indigenous peoples living in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Urals. Concerned about the Arabic alphabet used by the peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia, the Bolshevik regime was forced to adopt the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets in the 1920s and 1930s. Today, Russia is home to a large minority of Turks. The language policy and language laws in the Russian Federation have put the languages of the minority Turkic peoples living there in danger and in danger. Our study examines the language status of the minority Turkic peoples in Russia since the early twentieth century, the language policy pursued against their languages, and analyzes the decisions taken by the state.