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 ...

Turkey's president marked the 743rd anniversary of the Turkish language Wednesday. In 1277, Mehmet I of Karaman, a province in central Anatolia, declared Turkish as the official language of the ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

Turkey’s Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop celebrated the Turkish Language Festival early Thursday on Twitter. "Our Turkish, which constitutes the accumulation of thousands of years as our nation's ...

Newly Expanded Courses in Kazakh, Uzbek, and Azerbaijani Address Growing Demand for Central Asian and Turkic Language ...

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 ...

The Office of Fellowships is pleased to announce that Dominic Balestrieri-Fox (WCAS ’20) has won an American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) fellowship to study Turkish! As a fellow, Dominic will ...