Отчего в турецком алфавите нету буквы кю
«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. When
I went to see Atatürk next day I explained the problem to him again. He did not know the
manuscript capitals; he simply wrote them like the small letters only bigger. He took a sheet
of paper and wrote the initial letter of Kemal, first with an enlarged version of q, then with
an enlarged version of k. He didn't like the first at all. So we were spared q. Thank
goodness he didn't know the script capital Q, which was more flamboyant than K.»
Geoffrey Lewis, «The Turkish Language Reform»
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. When
I went to see Atatürk next day I explained the problem to him again. He did not know the
manuscript capitals; he simply wrote them like the small letters only bigger. He took a sheet
of paper and wrote the initial letter of Kemal, first with an enlarged version of q, then with
an enlarged version of k. He didn't like the first at all. So we were spared q. Thank
goodness he didn't know the script capital Q, which was more flamboyant than K.»
Geoffrey Lewis, «The Turkish Language Reform»