Aikhal Gabyshev, Ilia Cherkashin, Elena Cherkashina
This article deals with the ethnogenesis of the Sakha people and their original affiliation to the Turkic world. The history of creation of maswrestling, the national sport of the Sakha people. By the nature of the motor activity of athletes, mas-wrestling is …
The aim of this article is to analyse the reasons behind continuity and change in Turkey’s relations with Russia and to question the limits of cooperation between the two nations by using historical and current developments as cases. The article proposes that …
Turkey-European Union (EU) relations are always worth pondering. It is surely beyond doubt that relations between Turkey and the EU, within a six-decade period, have broken down frequently. Recently, some problematic issues have worsened the relations, once ag…
Public Diplomacy which continues to increase its importance alongside traditional diplomacy, become essential part of foreign policy of states. There are many activities in this content carried by governmental and nongovernmental institutions to gain consent o…
In this study, the language courses started in the People’s Houses at the beginning of 1940s by British Council of which presence has been subject to various speculations in Turkey are examined within the scope of language imperialism and cultural propaganda. …
The purpose of this study was to explore Kazakhstani and Turkish student teachers’ beliefs about English language learning, and whether there are any differences between their beliefs in terms of cultural background. The Beliefs about Language Learning Invento…
…n sign languages, focusing particularly on word order in Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili-TİD), one of the oldest, yet relatively understudied, sign languages. Two experiments were conducted to investigate TİD signers’ acceptability judgments of various…
Orhan Ağırdağ, Kathelijne Jordens, Mieke Van Houtte
In this mixed-method study, we explore teachers’ beliefs concerning the use of the Turkish language by Turkish children in Belgian primary schools, and we compare these findings with the effective consequences of language maintenance. The qualitative analyses …