REFORMS IN TURKEY.
< LATINISED ALPHABET. NEW SPELLING INTRODUCED. (Received August 13, 8.5 i?.ui.) [United Service. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 12 Sitting in front of a blackboard in the President's palace to-day the President, Mustapha Kemal, members of the Cabinet and their suites, received their first lesson in the new Latinised alphabet. This was expounded by experts of the Ministry of Education. The Ministry has had published a Latinised dictionary. A censorship bureau is to be established and it is proposed to compel the newspapers in Turkey and others to conform to the new spelling. Twenty-three letters are used, Q. W. and X being omitted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 9
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102REFORMS IN TURKEY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 9
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