The steep mountains and valleys of Kuskoy, Turkey, often echo with shrill tunes like the sound of birds. But what you hear are not birds — they are people, using a centuries-old language based on ...

Five-year-old Mehdi Rahimi watches his favorite cartoons on TRT Çocuk, a Turkish channel for children that his family gets on satellite TV in their home in Fatmayi, a village just outside of Baku.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently declared that, starting immediately, Turkish students would begin studying the Ottoman language in school. Erdogan defended the move by explaining that ...