Tag: turkey
Protection for Turkey’s ‘Bird Language’
The whistled “bird language” used by small groups of Black Sea villagers in remote northern Turkey has joined a UNESCO list of endangered languages in need of “urgent safeguarding.”
Around 10,000 people, mostly from the...
Views on Turkey’s Educator Purge
Last month, Language Magazine published an article outlining the draconian measures being taken by the Turkish government against teachers in the wake of the failed coup attempt. Now, the Middle East Studies Association of...