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4 unusual facts about Turkish alphabet


ISO 3166-2:TR

The codes 01–67 are assigned in Turkish alphabetical order, except Kahramanmaraş and Şanlıurfa, whose codes are assigned based on their historic names, Maraş and Urfa respectively.

Subdivision names are sorted in Turkish alphabetical order: a-c, ç, d-g, ğ, h, ı, i-o, ö, p-s, ş, t-u, ü, v-z.

Turkish alphabet

In 1939, the First Turkish Publications Congress was organized in Ankara for discussing issues such as copyright, printing, progress on improving the literacy rate and scientific publications, with the attendance of 186 deputies.

At the start of the 20th century similar proposals were made by several writers associated with the Young Turks movement, including Hüseyin Cahit, Abdullah Cevdet, and Celâl Nuri.



see also

Zel

Zel, the twelfth letter in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet