«At table on the evening of the day when I brought the draft proposals for the new writing,
Kâzım [Özalp] Pasha grumbled, 'How am I going to write my name? We must have a q.'
Atatürk said, 'What difference will one letter make? Let's have it.' Had we done so, we would
have kept the Arabic word from being Turkicized. I didn't say anything at the table
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