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Boing Boing is curious about “Why Q was illegal in Turkey until last month… A social fabric roundup…

October 21, 2013 by admin

Why Q was illegal in Turkey until last month Last month, Turkey repealed its 1928 Alphabet Law, and legalized the letter Q. In a short, illuminating piece in the London Review of Books, Yasmine Searle describes the history of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

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Categories Turkish judiciary, Turkish popular culture, Turkish Society Tags Birth rate, conscription, Eid al-Adha, European Union, General Staff of the Republic of Turkey, London Review of Books, middle east, Traffic collision, turkey, Turkish minorities in the former Ottoman Empire, Yasmine Searle Leave a comment

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