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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Erdogan's Ottoman language drive faces backlash in Turkey - vagazette.com

Erdogan's Ottoman language drive faces backlash in Turkey

By Humeyra Pamuk Reuters

11:47 a.m. EST, December 9, 2014
President Tayyip Erdogan stirred fierce criticism on Tuesday with plans to make lessons in Ottoman Turkish mandatory in high schools, prompting one opposition politician to declare that an army could not force his daughter to learn the language.

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