Turkey's president called on all citizens Tuesday to preserve and protect the Turkish language as part of the "Turkish: World Language" campaign launched on the 700th anniversary of the passing of ...

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 ...

The Turkish Ambassador to The Gambia, H.E. F. Türker Oba, has commended Gambian students for their dedication to learning Turkish, describing their efforts as a strong step toward deepening cultural ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...