ANKARA, TurkeyANKARA, Turkey — As a child, Emrah Kilic couldn’t understand a word his grandmother was saying. That’s because she was speaking Kurdish, the family’s ancestral language, whose public use ...

Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) chant slogans during an attempted march in Istanbul that was dispersed by police, October 30, 2016. (AP Photo / Emrah Gurel) By signing up ...

Turkic languages have been mobile all across history, making them "fascinating," a language expert said, adding the family tree of the Turkic languages has spread all across Eurasia. "What I find ...

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Generally speaking, language processing is a job for the brain's left hemisphere. That's true whether that language is spoken, written, or signed. But researchers have discovered an exception to this ...

Ever since the foundation of modern Turkey in 1923, the country’s Kurdish population has endured severe discrimination and national oppression. The nationalist officers around Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, ...

A group of Tunisian young people have been increasing interest in Turkish language and culture in the North African country. Originally forming their Turkish language club to improve their Turkish ...

(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 ...

Turkey's 20 percent Kurdish minority has been a traditional target of state discrimination, and the more militant among them have waged a 26-year insurgency that has killed tens of thousands. The ...