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 language is not receiving the attention it deserves, Turkey’s president said Wednesday, calling for it to be protected. "We do not give the attention deserved to the Turkish language, ...

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 ...

Hundreds of students have signed up as Turkey’s state-run Yunus Emre Institute started in-person Turkish language courses in Rwanda. Since opening its offices in Rwanda earlier this year, 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 ...