PodcastTurkey ready to add 5 new letters to alphabet, Erdoğan says
President Erdoğan has announced that Turkey was ready to adopt the "Common Turkish Alphabet" project, which would include 34 letters with the addition of five new characters to the official alphabet.
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Speaking in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 6 stated that Turkey has been ready to adopt the 34-letter "Common Turkish Alphabet" project.
According to the alphabet model approved at the Common Alphabet Commission organized by the Turkish Academy and the Turkish Language Association in Azeri capital Baku last September, five letters—Q, X, W, Ň, and Ä—were planned to be added to the existing 29 letters of Turkey's official alphabet.
Erdoğan emphasized that the 34-letter alphabet, adopted through common consensus, would “unify the Turkic world.”
He noted that all member countries of the Organization of Turkic States should undergo an alphabet transformation, stating, "Turkey, Azerbaijan, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus are ready for this. It would be appropriate for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan to initiate the transition to the new alphabet."
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