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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey want to take Turkish as a foreign language at school when they return to their country. The social needs as well as the humanitarian needs of 160,000 Syrian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, second from left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Madrid on June 28.