the ideology of lexical choices in the turkish translations of oliver twist

eadings which was drawn up by the Bureau (See
http://www.ceviribilim.com/dosya/1947.pdf). According to this declaration, over
five hundred titles were published between 1943 and 1947 by the state-sponsored
publishing house called M.E.B. Yayınevi (A publisher of the Turkish Ministry of
Education), and it was envisaged that more titles would be published in the years to
come. (http://ceviribilim.blogspot.com/2006/09/meb-klasikleri-nerede.html).
However, as Sabri Gürses points out in his article “M.E.B. Klasiklerini Halka Geri
Verin”(“Give the ‘M.E.B. Classics’ Back to People”), M.E.B Publishing House,
which has a history of 80 years, and the classic works it published have been made
invisible in the course of the privatization of the publications of textbooks. He asks
the following questions in his article: “How come the publications of this Publishing
House that belonged to the state and therefore the Turkish people got privatized?
How did this publishing house disappear? What has become of the Ministry’s
publishing activities carried out by means of people’s money? How come the list of
classics drawn up by the former Ministry of Education has been reduced to the socalled
“100 Essential Readings” recommended by the religious leaning Justice and
Development Party (AKP), the government's Ministry?” (2006;
http://ceviribilim.com/?p=307).
In his article “Masumiyetini Kaybeden Kaybeden Seçki: 100 Temel Ese”r
(“The Selection that Has Lost Its Innocence: ‘100 Essential Readings’”), Necdet
Neydim points out that by the 1970s, western classics had been regarded as
something with no drawbacks and even ‘sacred’ by many people and used as a
means to achieve modernization in Turkey. Nevertheless, in the 1970s, 80s and 90s,
there was a conservative backlash against the western classics. The conservatives
criticized them for being utterly foreign to the Turkish culture. In the 1990s,
however, there was a paradigm shift on the part of the conservatives. They decided to
stop keeping aloof from the translation of western classics, and began to get involved
in the translation business. Their involvement in the business helped them discover
the religious elements inherent in the classics, which they had disregarded in the
course of the modernization process. Neydim also elaborates on the effects of the
conservatives’ involvement in children’s literature. He argues that the religious
message inherent in the classics was either deleted altogether or made less strong by
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