Boing Boing is curious about “Why Q was illegal in Turkey until last month… A social fabric roundup…
Why Q was illegal in Turkey until last month Last month, Turkey repealed its 1928 Alphabet Law, and legalized the letter Q. In a short, illuminating piece in the London Review of Books, Yasmine Searle describes the history of Romanicization of Turkish writing, which was part of a larger project to assimilate Turkish minorities by … Read more