Words from a "lost" language spoken more than 3,000 years ago have been discovered on an ancient clay tablet unearthed in Turkey. Archaeologists discovered the tablet earlier this year during ...

ANKARA, Turkey — In a move likely to further jeopardize Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union, authorities imprisoned 17 students Tuesday as a crackdown continued against Kurds demanding the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Although Kurdish has been offered as an elective course in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish provinces for the past 14 years, official figures show that the number of government ...

An earlier policy of improving language rights for Kurds in Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fallen by the wayside. When Turkey’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, announced in September that ...

Linguists, associations and writers working in and on Kurdish as well as HDP Co-Chair Sancar and DBP Co-Chairs Bayındır and Aydeniz have met in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır in the wake ...

The Human rights Association has called on Turkey to abide by its responsibilities according to international conventions that it is a party to. Some 40 percent of the seven thousand languages spoken ...

Digital learning will take precedent in foreign language lessons in Turkish schools, while the lessons taught will vary depending on the type of school from this year, the government has detailed in ...

(Jewish Telegrapbic Agency) The language question cannot be regulated by manifestations, fisticuffs and the exchange of insults, writes the Turkish paper “Alschan” protesting against the action of the ...

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