Turkish Language
Summary
Turkish ( Trke (helpinfo)) is spoken as a native language by over 77 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe. Turkish is also spoken by several million immigrants in Western Europe, particularly in Germany.The roots of the language can be traced to Central Asia, with the first written records dating back nearly 1,300 years. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded.
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400 jobs go as German paper is 'saved'
The German newspaper that filed for insolvency last November, Frankfurter Rundschau, appears to have been saved after Germany's competition commission approved its takeover by Frankfurt's Allgemeine Zeitung.
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French photographer killed in Syria
French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin died in a Turkish hospital three days after suffering from shrapnel wounds sustained while covering clashes in northern Syria.
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Brave Turkish daily Taraf felled by offstage government axe
Turkey still has more journalists in jail than anywhere, and now its outspoken daily, Taraf, has 'lost' its two key editors.
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YouTube opens Turkish site, giving government more control
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Tuesday it had won a long-running battle to persuade the video-sharing website YouTube to operate under a Turkish web domain, giving Ankara a tighter rein over the site's content and requiring the firm to pay Turkish taxes.
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UBM Asia’s Shanghai baby show partners with Turkish organiser
News this week: During UBM’s Shanghai International Children-Baby-Maternity Industry Expo (CBME), UBM Asia announced a co-operation agreement with Istanbul-based EFEM to support the sales and marketing of the two organisations’ baby product shows.
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Turkish journalists protest at police raid
Turkish journalists staged street protests after security forces raided the offices of the two Istanbul-based news agencies, Güneş and Etkin (ETHA), and the Atılım newspaper.
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Apps Rush: Facebook Camera, Linkin Park GP, Collins Big Cat, Yahoo! Time Traveler, Brand Republic and more
A selection of 10 new and notable apps for you today. Apps Rush is now taking a summer holiday break, and will return on Wednesday 6 June.
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Madvertise buys Turkish mobile advertising rival
Berlin tech start-up Madvertise has bought Turkish mobile advertising rival Mobilike in what the German company sees as an important step to becoming the European market leader, writes Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin.
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In "dream city" for Syria refugees, hope of return dims
KILIS, Turkey (Reuters) - Life is starting to look more permanent for the Syrian refugees in Kilis. There are no tents in the Turkish camp. Instead, thousands of white cubicles sit in endless rows. With every grey brick laid along the paths that criss-cross the sea of container houses, Terkia Zarzoureh feels she is further from returning to her home across the border.
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Tarsus acquires Turkish exhibition organiser
News this week: London-listed B2B media group, Tarsus, agreed to acquire 70% of Turkish exhibition organiser Lifemedia Fuarcilik A. S. (Life Media) for an initial consideration of £10. 6 million. Tarsus estimates deferred payments of approximately £5 million will be due in 2013, bringing the estimated total payment to approximately £15 million.
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