Aesthetics has been the subject of different fields from the past to the present and has been evaluated through various approaches. There are different definitions of aesthetics, but the common aspect is its association with beauty and the senses. Despite its close relationship with fields such as philosophy and art history, everyday aesthetics has developed in a different direction from these fields today, focusing on the ordinary aspects of daily life. Everyday aesthetics reveals the aesthetic value of ordinary and commonplace phenomena. Daily spoken language is such a phenomenon. Before the emergence of everyday aesthetics, studies on aesthetics mostly focused on the literary aspects of language. For example, Turkish is one of the languages in which such studies exist. There are many studies aimed at revealing the aesthetic value of Turkish, whose earliest written products we have started to see since the 7th century. The main focus of these studies is on written language and literary works thought to reflect the aesthetic value of written language. Other studies on the aesthetic dimension of language have also concentrated on written language. However, the daily spoken language of Turkish has not been included in these aesthetic studies. One of the areas where the real richness of Turkish discourse and its aesthetic value are revealed is spoken language. This study aims to provide an opportunity to make inferences about the aesthetic value of the daily spoken language of Türkiye Turkish through the concept of everyday aesthetics. The sample of the study has consisted of the most frequently used formulaic expressions in daily language. The spoken language has been analyzed in terms of everyday aesthetics by considering the functions of these formulaic expressions. While analyzing the formulaic expressions, the evaluation criteria of everyday aesthetics have been taken into consideration, and efforts were made to reveal their aesthetic value based on their alignment with these criteria and their functions in daily life. This study highlights that aesthetics extends beyond the formal and literary domains of language. It illustrates that everyday language usage can also be associated with sub-fields of aesthetics based on various criteria, in addition to the more traditional areas such as formal and literary language. The primary objective of this study is to uncover the aesthetic value inherent in the Turkish spoken language, addressing a gap in this area, and to introduce the concept of everyday aesthetics to the Turkish academic literature within the realm of linguistic performance.

Women were peace-loving and avoided war unless necessary. Throughout history, women's roles in war have been based on serving in the background, such as nursing duties. In peace as in war, goodness and healing were provided through nurses. Florence Nightingale, who worked as a nurse during the Crimean War, is known for her contributions to the nursing profession and the institutionalization of the profession in the Ottoman Empire. Nurses contributed to patient care for Muslim Turkish soldiers, starting from the Balkan War in 1912, and during the Gallipoli War and World War I. Among these pioneer women was Kerime Salahor. Many portraits and busts of Kerime Salahor were made; The most striking among these is the portrait made by Feyhaman Duran. It reflects his female sensibility of the artist, who carries the spirit of Art Nouveau as well as his impressionist palette. Nazli Ecevit also made a portrait of Kerime Salahor. Sculptors Yervant Osgan and Ihsan Özsoy made a bust of Kerime Salahor. We can also trace the history of Turkish Nursing based on Kerime Salahor's painting and bust. This gradually turns into an effort to understand what women do and experience regarding healing and care, not only in Turkey, but also in the rings of the chain of human history, starting from the earliest times of history via Peircian semiotics. In this article, we evaluate portraits and busts of Kerime Salahor, a symbol of women providing care in wartime in the context of history of nursing, gender, and portraiture.