Oct. 25, 2005, 7:40 AM EDT / Source: Reuters A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday night said the north is “ready” to transition to the new common Turkic alphabet. Addressing the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) summit in the ...

Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that the refusal by a public office to register a baby with the name “Ciwan” — which contains the Kurdish letter “W” — did not constitute a violation of ...

Turkish used to be written with the Arabic alphabet from about 900 to 1928. In order to increase literacy in the country and to modernize Turkey, the Latin alphabet was introduced and adopted after ...