Turkey, the Thanksgiving bird with many names, has shaped language and identity and caused a country to change its name.

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 ...

With few young speakers and little official support, activists are turning to artificial intelligence to help preserve one of ...

One of the key things which sets Turkey apart from its European and Middle Eastern neighbors is its language. A member of the Oghuz Turkic family and spoken by around 170 million people across Eurasia ...

ANKARA, Turkey — In a move likely to further jeopardize Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union, authorities imprisoned 17 students Tuesday as a crackdown continued against Kurds demanding the ...

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 Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop celebrated the Turkish Language Festival early Thursday on Twitter. "Our Turkish, which constitutes the accumulation of thousands of years as our nation's ...

Fi,' 'Dump of Untitled Pieces,' and 'LifeLike,' three narrative features from Turkey are featured in key sections of the ...

Much of the turkey's early history is shrouded in uncertainty, historians and etymologists say — which is particularly true ...