The Proto-Turkic language developed around 1000 BCE and spread throughout Central Asia during the early Common Era. Over time ...

UNESCO has designated Dec. 15 as World Turkic Language Family Day for the promotion of a common language, culture and documentary heritage of Turkic-speaking states. In Uzbekistan’s historical city of ...

A military school in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has hosted a Turkish Language Festival aimed at promoting Turkish language ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that, starting immediately, Turkish students would begin studying the Ottoman language in school. Erdogan defended the move by explaining that ...

Five-year-old Mehdi Rahimi watches his favorite cartoons on TRT Çocuk, a Turkish channel for children that his family gets on satellite TV in their home in Fatmayi, a village just outside of Baku.

The commonly held view is that a minority is a self-identifying group with a national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity.30 The Turkish government uses an idiosyncratic definition ...