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December 15, 2025 - GTU Office of Press and Public Relations Pursuant to the decision adopted at the 43rd General Conference held on November 3, 2025, by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), affiliated with the United Nations (UN), December 15 has been declared World Turkic Languages Family Day.
December 15 is also the date on which the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen deciphered the Orkhon Inscriptions and announced at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences that the inscriptions were written in Turkish, thereby introducing them to the scholarly world (December 15, 1893).
This special day was celebrated at Gebze Technical University (GTU) together with our international students who are learning Turkish at the A1 level within the scope of the TÜR-104 coded course, accompanied by Turkish coffee.
At the end of the event, Turkish storybooks were presented to the students as gifts. The event was organized by Instructor Melike Erdil (PhD). |
