Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday night said the north is “ready” to transition to the new common Turkic alphabet. Addressing the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) summit in the ...

Turkish used to be written with the Arabic alphabet from about 900 to 1928. In order to increase literacy in the country and to modernize Turkey, the Latin alphabet was introduced and adopted after ...

The process, promoted mainly by Erdogan's Turkey, received a further boost after the start of Putin's aggression against Ukraine. Language seen as the ultimate integrator of political and ideological ...

10 facts about Turkish. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Turkish with audio. Get started with 20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of useful phrases from ...

“It’s become a kind of comedy,” said film director Kazim Oz, one of Turkey’s 12 million ethnic Kurds. “They are committing acts of violence against letters.” Yet, while the issue may have its absurd ...