'URDU' is a Turkish word. The fact that it literally means 'army' or 'army camp' gave rise to myth that Urdu is a 'camp language', though linguists have proved that neither is Urdu a 'camp language' ...

An otherwise staid hearing on Internet freedom and repressive regimes turned nearly salacious for a moment Friday when Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., questioned a State Department official about a list of ...

THERE are, presumably, 2,600 words that are common in Urdu and the Turkish language, as listed in Purdil Khatak’s book Urdu Aur Turki Ke Mushtarak Alfaaz (Islamabad, 1987). But many of these words are ...

In a remote mountain village high above Turkey's Black Sea coast, there are villagers who still communicate across valleys by whistling. Not just whistling as in a non-verbal, "Hey, you!" But actually ...

This sparks the question: are these words Arabic or not? With each passing day in this country, the familiar words such as "mescit" for mosque and "Kahve" for coffee as well as the Muslim greeting ...

The association of the Turkish language with the Turkish state and its politics makes many wary of acknowledging the indelible place of Turkish in the lives of Ottoman Armenians and their diasporan ...

It is generally believed that Turkish stress is always word-final. Closer examination, however, reveals several types of exceptions to this pattern involving both roots and affixes. This paper ...

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.