Citizen speak Turkish! (Turkish: Vatanda?? T??rk??e konu??!) - An initiative created by law students but sponsored by the Turkish government which aimed to put pressure on non-Turkish speakers to speak Turkish in public in the 1930s.[30][31][32][33][34][35][36] In some municipalities, fines were given to those speaking in any language other than Turkish.[33][37][38][39][40][41]