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Turkey Finally Legalizes Letters Q, W, and X

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Included in laws designed to repress Turkey’s Kurdish population and their language is a curious ban of the alphabet but now government legalizes letters

Turkey Legalizes the Letters Q, W and X

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After 85 years of being banned, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “Democratization Package” has legalized the formerly banned letters Q, W and X. In the early twentieth century, the secular government of Kemal Atatürk sought to sweep.

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  1. Can says

    As if those letters used to exist in the rotten Ottomans.. come on, “secular government of Atatürk” changed the fate of a nation that has now been strangling by Erdogan’s fist.

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