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Some Turks reconsidering Arabic connection to Turkish language

August 15, 2013Global Politics

Turkey is a country at the intersection of east and west, literally. The majority of the country in Asia, part in Europe. Majority Islamic, but the Turkish language is written in Latin script, rather than Arabic. But it wasn’t always so. And now, some Turks are trying to once more learn the Arabic script version of Turkish.

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