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Ahmet Mithat Efendi, whom we still remember with mercy at his in the centenary of death (1844-1912), revealed very important opinions about the simplification of Turkish. After Mustafa Rashid Pasha who issued Tanzimat edict and Şinasi who published the first privatenewspaper, Ahmet Mithat Efendi was seriously interested in language problem he supported that the Turkish nation is don’t have a language and the language of public have to be done as national language at the articles which he wrote in 1872-873 at Basiret Newspaper and Dagarcık journal. So he sees that Arabic and Persian phrases and adjectives must have disposed for simplification of Turkish as the first step. Many Turkish intellectuals of the periods which is not acceptable in a language close to the language he used in his works idealize, so that his novels was one of the most widely read novels during period. In addition to simplification of the language and teaching of language, Ahmet Mithat Efendi wants to remove unnecessary rules and principles of Arabic and Persian from school books. He believes that the time of writing an excellent spelling, grammar book and dictionary of Turkish. Writer isn’t a language authority. But his ideas that he supported in 1872-1873 were discussed for forty years by intellectuals and this ideas were systematized in 1911 at GençKalemler by ZiyaGökalp, Ömer Seyfettin and Ali Canip as “Yeni Lisan” [New Language]. This ideas which he said that the first time about new language accepted by the intellectuals and prepared the emergence of a national Turkish literature. His opinions on simplification of Turkish will be discussed in this article.