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 ...

Opinions Diverge Over Ottoman Language Classes A recommendatory decision to bring compulsory Ottoman language classes in high schools stirred discussion in Turkey, President Erdoğan also stepped in to ...

Learning the Ottoman-era language is a must for the next generation to repair our damaged ties with our ancestors' civilization, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. In an address at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erdogan's Ottoman language drive faces backlash in Turkey By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan stirred ...

Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, which are ...

With: Key to the Ottoman-Turkish conversational-grammar / by V.H. Hagopian. London : Julius Groos 1908.

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 ...

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 ...