Turkish used to be written with the Arabic alphabet from about 900 to 1928. In order to increase literacy in the country and to modernize Turkey, the Latin alphabet was introduced and adopted after ...

Modern Turkey owes much of its foundation to Atatürk—“Father of the Turks,” as he later became known. Revered across the country, his legacy is visible everywhere: statues of him stand proudly in ...

In 2007, the mayor of a city in southeastern Türkiye mailed cards wishing his citizens a Happy Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Shortly after, charges were made against the mayor … for having used an ...

He who loves the rose should put tip with its thorns. —Old Turkish saying ONE day in 1853, Nicholas I, Czar of all the Russias, peered southward over his aristocratic nose and voiced the opinion that ...

Following a successful Turkish War of National Liberation, the Republic of Turkey emerged in 1923. The country’s first and founding President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk instituted reforms that would shape ...

ISTANBUL, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Some Google services including YouTube temporarily went down on Thursday in Turkey and some parts of Europe including Greece and Germany, according to a Turkish deputy ...

At Istanbul restaurant Turk, Turkey’s first and only to have been awarded two Michelin stars, diners are introduced to the breadth and depth of Turkish cuisine. The country’s rich culinary heritage, ...

Abstract: Turkish texts written by English characters are easily comprehended by people, although performing this process by machines is still one of the unsolved Word Sense Disambiguation problems.

The move aims to create a unified alphabet across the Turkic world. While the common 29 letters will remain, dialects will use the additional letters as needed. The new arrangement seeks to ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday night said the north is “ready” to transition to the new common Turkic alphabet. Addressing the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) summit in the ...