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 ...

Turkish Development Minister Cevdet Yilmaz said on Wednesday "the world could unite under a common basis that we are all humans, and now under the Turkish language." Turkish Development Minister ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkey's 20 percent Kurdish minority has been a traditional target of state discrimination, and the more militant among them have waged a 26-year insurgency that has killed tens of thousands. The ...