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

In early 2016, Cyprus asked the EU to recognise Turkish as an official language, in an attempt to boost its reunification process. Over one year later, this request has made little headway.

The Kirkuk Governorship in Iraq announced Thursday a decision to again use Turkish as an official language in official correspondence. It said the Turkish language will also be included in letterheads ...

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.

An event on the newly proclaimed World Turkic Language Day took place on Tuesday in the historic Uzbek city of Samarkand. Samarkand is where UNESCO on Monday proclaimed the adoption of Dec. 15 as ...

WASHINGTON — Ceding to a long-standing Turkish demand, the State Department on Thursday agreed to begin spelling the country’s name in Turkish in its official documents. Turkey will now be referred to ...

Hungary is a country that doesn’t quite fit the mould of most European countries linguistically and culturally, but it does ...

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 ...