BISHKEK -- The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their ...

An off-the-cuff comment by a freshly appointed Education Minister in Kyrgyzstan about a potential change of alphabet for Kyrgyz has cause frenzied discussions online, even if the proposal seems a long ...

In April, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev included an order to generate a plan to switch Kazakh from a Cyrillic to a Latin alphabet by 2025 in a larger “strategic plan,” published in a state-run ...

It disrupted the communication of the Turkish sphere of influence in areas such as language, literature, commerce and economy. Kazakhstan has introduced the new Latin alphabet prepared with the ...

When Sarvar Otamuradov ran for president in Uzbekistan last year, one of his main campaign promises was to push through the full-fledged adoption of the Latin alphabet. The tone of Otamuradov’s ...