Module: MGRA501.1
Authorship & Interaction | Ba(Hons) Graphic Communication Design | University of Westminster

When I first got the project heading, I thought of gathering data of Turkish speakers within the world, I would show the increase of the number from the year 1990 (my birth year) to 2013. I started my research and found some interesting numbers.

I looked at the population of Turkey, the population of the World and the population of Turkish speakers in the world.

After doing that I also considered looking into the very beginning of the Turkish civilization, I looked into the risa and the fall of the Ottoman Empire and found some interesting data.

I then realized this data may not be very interesting so started to look at the spread of Turkish people within the world, which countries they immigrated to after wars, which countries have largest population of Turkish people and the growth of the Turkish within the globe.

75,627,384 Turkish people in Turkey
85% of Turkey speak Turkish
6,912 different languages in the world
3% of the world speak Turkish
90 million of the world speak Turkish
Turkey is ranked 5th in world languages

30+ Countries can speak Turkish, these include:
Azerbaijan
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
France
Germany
Greece
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Kirghistan
Kosovo
Macadonia
Netherlands
Romania
Serbia
Switzerland
Turkmenistan
Turkey
Uzbekistan
United Kingdom
United States

The Turkish have settled in many countries around the world, these are the countries with the most Turkish citizans:
Turkey
Bulgaria
Iraq
Algeria
Tunisia
Syria
Cyprus
Macedonia
Greece
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Lebanon
Romania
Jordan
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Kosovo
Serbia
Yemen
Abkhazia
Georgia
Montenegro

Other countries are:
Germany
France
United Kingdom
United States
Netherlands
Austria
Belgium
Australia
Kazakhstan
Russia
Azerbaijan
Sweden
Switerland
Libya
Denmark
Brazil
Canada
Kyrgyzstan
Italy
Norway
Uzbekistan
Finland
Japan
Ukraine
Qatar
Turkmenistan

United Arab Emirates
Afghanistan
Spain
South Africa
Kuwait
Mexico
Ireland
Poland
New Zealand
Croatia
Czech Republic
Hungary
Argentina
Chile
Liechtenstein
Moldovo
Uruguay
Luxemburg
Tajikistan
Hong Kong
Slovenia
Latvia
India
Indonisia
Portugal
Belarus
Slovakia

Iceland
Monaco
Malta
Puerto Rico
Lithuania
Estonia
Greenland

I then thought of making this piece more historical, rather than just having the Turkish settled countries left on the map, I would map out the countries that had been overtaken by the Ottoman Empire and then remove the rest of the world and be left with only the shape that would have been the Ottoman Empire

So with this information I would use a world map and cut out all the countries that does NOT have Turkish citizens settled in them, the map would then show a different shape, instead of the known continents outlines.

Below is a list of cities that were conquered by the Ottoman Empire and the year in which they were conquered:

Below are images of the Ottoman Empire's expansion during 1300 and 1683, I will use these to be able to map out my design and cut each conquered city/country on a new sheet/board. This way I will show the expansion by adding the next piece on top of the one before.

For my final idea I will 'wipe out' all the countries in the world and leave only the places that were conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

The final piece will be a 3D replica of what the world wou;d have looked like if it was only occupied by the places conquered by the Ottoman Empire