Analysis of the knowledge of Turkish idioms of the Turkish youth in French speaking European Union countries

The purpose of this study is to describe how well the most commonly used Turkish idiomatic expressions are known by students who have Turkish background and live in French speaking countries.To this end, different definitions of the `idiomatic expression? concept which are made with aspect of grammar and linguistics were examined and compared, aimed to reach one and consistent definition. In the light of this definition, we selected 9 different daily newspapers and two writers for each newspaper; overall 365 articles were scanned and a frequency study on idiomatic expressions was carried out. Results of this study showed the most frequently used idiomatic expressions; the least known idiomatic expressions among them are detected with a survey which applied to a control group.On the last step of the study, a survey consists of these idiomatic expressions, was applied to Turkish students who lives in France, Switzerland and Belgium. Results of the survey were evaluated and the knowledge level on Turkish idiomatic expressions of participants was described.