On 1 November 1928, a new Turkish alphabet law was passed making making the use of Latin letters compulsory in all public communications and the education system 11 July 1928 A new alphabet for ...

This sparks the question: are these words Arabic or not? With each passing day in this country, the familiar words such as "mescit" for mosque and "Kahve" for coffee as well as the Muslim greeting ...

In 1928, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of the modern Turkish republic, enacted one of the more dramatic and radical reforms of the 20th century. Ataturk ordered the wholesale ...

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 ...

Doha, Qatar: QatarDebate concluded the second Turkish Universities Arabic Debating Championship, which was organised in partnership with the Center for Arabic Language Studies and Debates at Sultan ...

Corinne Stokes specializes in sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, and popular music and culture studies, working in particular with Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages. She holds an MA in Arabic ...