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Language and literature · Türkiye

Turkic languages, epics, books, writers and poets: from the Orkhon inscriptions to today.

Works and epics

Literary workMasnaviRumi's great six-book poem, a masterpiece of Sufi literature.Read more →
Literary workSeyahatname (Book of Travels)Evliya Çelebi's ten-volume travel book — the richest source on the 17th-century Ottoman world and its neighbours.Read more →
Literary workMemed, My Hawk (İnce Memed)Yaşar Kemal's four-volume novel (1955–1987): the epic of a young man from Çukurova who takes to the mountains against the landlords.Read more →
Literary workMy Name Is RedOrhan Pamuk's 1998 novel: a murder story among miniature painters in late-16th-century Istanbul.Read more →

Writers and poets

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Languages

LanguageTurkish languageThe most widely spoken Turkic language, of the Oghuz branch; the official language of Türkiye and Northern Cyprus, written in the Latin alphabet since 1928.Read more →

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Mutual intelligibility between Turkish and Azerbaijani is among the highest of any Turkic languages.
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