Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi SBE Dergisi

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Translation is an obligation that is brought by multiculturalism. It becomes a necessity during recognizing and pattern the dominant culture. It gets different societies to understand and compromise with each other. The translation which is one of the primary elements organizes the transaction of knowledge and culture. It also is the shortest way for human being to learn the outside world.
The societies that want to meet translation needs try different methods and sometimes they established institutions to have the best translation. These efforts, in time, led up to born science of translation as a discipline. In the modern world, the societies that have this discipline have a significant advantage to know and communicate with other nations. On the other hand, the societies that do not have this discipline are exposed to harm that is caused by translation.
In the middle of 1600s, first translations were primarily on subjects such as lexicon (language), culture, religion, in the East. When we consider it from the point of Turkish culture, the attention of the East toward the West began the 1850s. This date, at the same time, was the period when the Ottoman Empire adopted innovation as a government policy. Therefore, first translation works were limited to martial and geographical topics that were dedicated to recognizing and understanding Western culture.