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.

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 ...

UNESCO has designated Dec. 15 as World Turkic Language Family Day for the promotion of a common language, culture and documentary heritage of Turkic-speaking states. In Uzbekistan’s historical city of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkey's human rights record is marred by its severe restrictions on the right to freedom of expression. Individuals in Turkey face prosecution and prison terms merely for using forbidden minority ...