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Get ready to explore the Caucasus, a mountainous region known for its incredible linguistic diversity and complexity. From ...
In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.
Hawawshi makes a smashing debut in my unofficial catalog of Spectacular Sandwiches of the World. Cumin, coriander, allspice, ...
In Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, English is the de facto language, while the remaining 56* official ...
A man found guilty of burning a Koran outside a Turkish consulate in London has said his conviction is an ‘assault on free speech’. Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted ‘f*** Islam’ and ‘Islam is religion of ...
"We have direct ties, direct channels of communication with Turkey, as well as through mediators, and we hope that these ties ...
Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate Syrian citizens from a camp that houses tens of thousands of people ...
In reality, despite some official steps to recognize the existence of the Kurdish people and the Kurdish language ... “While the maps are being redrawn in blood, while the war that Israel ...
The two peoples who, after a century of changes to the Middle Eastern map ... of Kurdish identity and culture in Turkey’s Constitution, the teaching of the Kurdish language in schools, and ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish language is in decline among the younger generations of Kurds in northeast Turkey, where education is primarily conducted in Turkish. “I understand Kurdish ...
Turkish pundits imagined a neo-Ottoman Middle East map in which Syria was incorporated ... outrageous cases over the past year in which Kurdish language songs, dances, and promotion of cultural ...
The case against Roni is just one among a slew of outrageous cases over the past year in which Kurdish language songs, dances, and promotion of cultural and linguistic rights have been interpreted ...