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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Every time she prepares her newspaper for print, Karen Sarhon has her pick from dozens of submissions she receives daily from writers around the world. A desirable situation for any editor-in-chief, ...

The EU's highest court on Thursday rejected a rule requiring Turks wanting to join their spouses to live in Germany to have a basic knowledge of the language, a ruling that sparked criticism in Berlin ...

Ladino, a legacy of the Spanish Jewish influx into Turkey 500 years ago, is being revived by young Turks and Israelis. ISTANBUL (JTA) — Every time she prepares her newspaper for print, Karen Sarhon ...