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Sun, 11/23/2014 - 12:43
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Istanbul univ. hosts Persian-language courses

Ankara, Nov 23, IRNA – Istanbul’s Yıldız Technical University is holding Persian-language courses for students and interested individuals who want to learn the language. The classes are being held by Iran’s cultural attaché office in the university’s faculty of languages. During the opening ceremony of the language courses, the cultural attaché of Iran’s consulate in Istanbul Javad Amini explained the cultural center’s activities in the field of Persian language and literature. The Iranian official also expressed his willingness to expand academic-cultural ties with Turkey’s cultural institutes. Abdullah Dodangeh, a PhD candidate of history in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, is instructing the language. Persian and Turkish languages enjoy some 5,000 common terms and even more than 500 Persian words are used in Turkish-language’s daily conversations. While Persian language (Farsi) was a dominant language throughout Asia including Turkey in few centuries age, up to the 1960 revolution in Turkey the study of Persian language was compulsory in all Turkish schools. Moreover, most of the high dignitaries of Ottoman Court used to recite Persian verses of Hafiz and Sa’adi and other great poets of Iran and considered it as a sign of culture and refinement./end

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