ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish government proposal to end a decades-long conflict with Kurdish militants has put Kurdish rights back in the spotlight, at a time when Kurdish leaders say repression is ...

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 ...

Eighteen languages in Turkey are currently listed as endangered, vulnerable, or have become extinct, according to UNESCO. This is a result of decades of government policies that have not put other ...

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 ...

ANKARA — In the misty mountains and coastal towns of Turkey’s eastern Black Sea, the Laz language, which once echoed through the lanes of small villages, now lingers mostly in the quiet houses of ...

An earlier policy of improving language rights for Kurds in Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fallen by the wayside. When Turkey’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, announced in September that ...

Farmers in what is now Turkey may have uttered the first Indo-European words around 8,000 years ago, according to a study in this week's Nature. The roots of Indo-European languages are hotly debated.

More and more Turkish high schools and universities are offering German courses, and an increasing number of Turkish people are studying in German universities. What's behind the trend?German has ...