Latin script

A joint commission within the Organization of Turkic States (TDT) has reached an agreement on the adoption of a common alphabet consisting of 34 letters.

The decision came after the commission's third meeting, held in the Azerbaijani capital Baku between Sept. 9 and 11, with contributions from the Turkish Language Association (TDK).

The law regulates the use of the Serbian language and toughens measures for the protection of the Cyrillic alphabet as "mother script".
The Law on Official Use of Languages and Alphabets entered regular parliamentary procedure for adoption.

An online digital library project, "WikiLala," which aims to bring together and digitize all the printed texts from the Ottoman Empire since the introduction of the printing press, has been shedding new light on the empire's history and culture.

Worried by the declining use of their ancient script, councillors in the Serbian capital, Belgrade on Friday adopted a decision to reward companies that promote use of Cyrillic.

The adopted by-law offers a 5-per-cent discount to companies and people who rent city-owned offices if they write their names in Cyrillic.

Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree to change the Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin alphabet, reports RIA Novosti.

This was the start for the third 100 years of linguistic reform.

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree to change the Kazakh language from Cyrillic to Latin, the head of state said today. "There is a Latin script on the alphabet of the Kazakh language," he says. The government has been planning to set up a commission to draw up a schedule for moving to Latin from 2025. Control will be exercised by the administration of the president.

The Ministry of Culture presented proposed changes on Thursday in a bid to counter decreasing use of the Cyrillic alphabet in the country, particularly among the younger generation.

The Serbian government is planning to set up a Council for the Serbian Language and introduce fines for public institutions and companies that do not use Cyrillic, as well as tax benefits to promote wider use of the script, state-owned newspaper Vecernje Novosti reported on Monday. 

The Belgrade city manager says he has discussed changing regulations in order to incentivize businesses to display their name in Cyrillic.

According to Goran Vesic, he spoke about it with "the appropriate ministry" - while such companies would be granted "discounts."

Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has joined the commemoration of the 34 villagers who lost their lives in a Turkish military airstrike in 2011 in the southeastern province of Şırnak, calling on the government find those responsible for the deaths.