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 ...

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18 th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

“You are [Turkish state] banning people to learn their mother language. You are saying that there won’t be education in mother language. Then you are saying that children can’t read gravestone in ...

Through an obligatory course in high school, Turkish students will be able to learn Ottoman Turkish, an idea presented at the 19th Council of Turkey National Education suggested. The event gave ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan stirred fierce criticism on Tuesday with plans to make lessons in Ottoman Turkish mandatory in high schools, prompting one opposition politician to ...

In 1928, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of the modern Turkish republic, enacted one of the more dramatic and radical reforms of the 20th century. Ataturk ordered the wholesale ...

A Quran printing company in Turkey has produced an Ottoman Turkish keyboard which is attracting great interest, the company’s chief executive said. The language has seen a marked increase of interest ...