In Turkish Computer is "Bilgisayar" => "Info Counter". History of it is pretty nice. In the early days of Turkish Republic, with a push From M.Kemal Ataturk, La

In Turkish Computer is "Bilgisayar" => "Info Counter". History of it is pretty nice. In the early days of Turkish Republic, with a push From M.Kemal Ataturk, Latin Alphabet is adopted. After that there was a movement towards using "Native Turkish" words instead of the adopted ones from other languages. So after "computer" war introduced to Turkey, for a while "komputer" word was used for it. But Around 1969 Aydın Köksal, an Electric and Electronic Professor from Hacettepe University who was also influenced this movement tried new Turkish words for computing related terms. And " Bilgisayar" was termed at this time. There are also other terms coined by him and his colleagues like "hardware-donanım", "software - yazilim (meaning something written)..