TURKEY'S NEW ALPHABET
POPULATION TO BE SCHOOLED. By Telegraph—Tress Assn —Copyright. Xlnited Service. Constantinople, Oct. 7. Every inhabitant of Angora, man, woman and child, must attend special courses at extempore schools in the coffee houses, casinos and other places of amusement and learn the new alphabet, the instructors being Ministers, deputies and highbrows, superintended by Mustapha Kemal. One ofc the three officers who were arrested at Brousca for disparaging the alphabet was imprisoned for a year, the other being acquitted. Turkey is abandoning the Arabic letters and adopting 23 letters of the English alprabet.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1928, Page 9
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