Turkey is considering adding the letters "Q," "W," and "X"
to their alphabet. The idea is that it would appease the
Kurds.
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including X, Q, W in Turkish alphabets
Changing
the Turkish alphabet to include the letters Q, W and X to appease
Turkey's Kurds, who have previously faced prosecution for using these
letters, might be amongst the "surprise reforms," mentioned by Foreign
Minister Ali Babacan earlier this week, says a senior official from the
Foreign Ministry...
I have an idea about how the USA could help ease this ethnic tension:
we could give them our "W." We certainly have no
use for "it."
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