The Turkish language is gaining in popularity in Somalia, a country in the Horn of Africa, as the two countries are cementing people-to-people relations that include promoting businesses, tourism, and ...

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.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that, starting immediately, Turkish students would begin studying the Ottoman language in school. Erdogan defended the move by explaining that ...

In early 2016, Cyprus asked the EU to recognise Turkish as an official language, in an attempt to boost its reunification process. Over one year later, this request has made little headway.

Turkey’s international cultural and language body, the Yunus Emre Enstitüsü, has recorded progress in its latest forays into sub-Saharan Africa, where in 2017 it established new learning centres in ...