Üsküp’te Türkçe Eğitimi ve Türkçenin Genç Nesil Tarafından Öğrenilmesi Üzerine - On Turkish Education in Skopje and its Learning by Young Generation

Skopje is a city, which has Ottoman heritage and embraces different ethnicities inside. These ethnicities are Macedonians, Albanians, Turks, Serbians, Bosnians, Wallacks, Gypsies etc. They live in a harmony together by affecting languages and cultures of each other. In Skopje, there are several schools where the education language is Turkish. Among them, one school with the name “Tefeyyüz” has been teaching students in Turkish language since the past times. Turkish people living in city center and surrounding villages provide their children take Turkish education in the school despite all the challenges. In this study, the subject of learning Turkish language by the young generation in Skopje is taken into account by various aspects. One of those and the strongest one is that children go to schools which give the education in Turkish language from first to nine grades. Another aspect is that Turkish and Albanian families do notspeak any otherlanguages except Turkish in their housesto provide their childrento learn it. Also another aspect is the one which seems quite unusual to us and that is why we ignore it, however, it has a huge contribution to learning Turkish language. It is the effect of Turkish television series on learning Turkish.