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This paper aims to find out the attitudes of Turkish children who live in Belgium towards Turkish in terms of demographical features. Research design of this study is scanning model. The participants are 198 Turkish children who took Turkish and Turkish Culture course in 2010-2011 education year in Anvers, Gent, Genk and Brussel regions of Belgium, were chosen randomly and aged between 11- 15. In order to reach data for the study, "Attitude Scale of Turkish Children Who Live Abroad Towards Their Mother Tongues" and "Personal Information Form", which were developed by the researchers, were used. SPSS 19.0 package program was used for analyses. In the study the findings from the analyses were interpreted as significant with 0.05 significance level. After the research, it has been seen that the attitudes of Turkish Children who live in Belgium towards their mother tongue are high (among the points of none, a little, middle, high and full). Moreover, the attitudes of the Turkish children in Belgium who participated in the study towards Turkish have been revealed not to change significantly in terms of gender, age, mother's educational status, father's educational status, father's job, the frequency of going to Turkey and the length of residence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the second half of the XIX century, when Germany built its unity under the leadership of Bismarck, European powers shared the African Continent at the Berlin Conference in 1885. As a shareholder, Belgium had controlled Congo, which was almost eighty times bigger than itself, for along time, thanks to the colonial tools and methods. Belgium's administration in Congo stands as a case study for colonization applied in all over the Africa during the XIX and XX centuries. Western Countries who claimed that they were in Africa for the sake of civilization, ended up transporting the resources of Africa for more than one century and conducted a severe policy which has had impacts lasting up to today by imposing western languages and religion on Africans. It has been focused on following basics: as colonial tolls "language" and "religion", as colonial methods "mission", term of "civilization", "social" and "work order" in colonies, "education system" and the means of "transporting the colonies resources". In this research, it has been noted that European Colonial Powers entered African countries with the motto "civilization", but changed the language and religion of the Africans via mainly missions, enforced their power with the help of the social class and education system set in colonies, transported the natural resources of colonies and improved their own wealth. In this paper, it is concluded that while colonialism ended, the same tools and the methods are continued to be used under the theoretical name of "neo-colonialism". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]