The Essentials
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Digging Deeper
Language Resources
- Rosetta Stone: Turkish
- Duolingo (free language learning app)
- Memrise: Turkish
- Memrise: Kurdish
- BBC Language
- LiveMocha: Turkish
- Babbel
- Turkish Class
Cultural Resources
- Turkey in Brief
- Hofstede Center: Turkey
- Turkish Cultural Center
- BBC: Who Are the Kurds?
- Ministry of Culture and Tourism
- Turkish Cultural Center
- New York Turkish Film Festival
- Turkish Festivals
- Sporcle Turkish Trivia Games
- Culture Grams
- –Username: afsusa – Password: cgrams
News and Media
- BBC Türkçe (Turkish)
- Daily Sabah (English and Turkish)
- Hürriyet Daily News (English)
- Turkish Youtube Channels
Movies, Documentaries and Television
- Bal (Honey) (2010)
- The Butterfly’s Dream (2013)
- Vizontele (2001)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
- Paramparça (2014)
- Magnificent Century (2011)
- Ezel (2009)
- The Fall of Leaves (2005)
- On the Way to School (2008)
- Turkey—The New Ottomans (BBC 2013)
- Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City 1900-1922 (2012)
- Gallipoli (2005)
- Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
- Istanbul Unveiled (2013)
- Lost Songs of Anatolia (2010)
- Gobeklitepe: The World’s First Temple (2010)
- Latcho Drom (1993) (focuses on the Romani people)
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Istanbul (2010)
Books
- Birds Without Wings
- My Name is Red
- Memed, My Hawk
- Cloud in the Sky (short stories)
- Ataturk
- Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950
- Istanbul: Memories and the City
- Meander: East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River
- Portrait of a Turkish Family
LGBTQ Resources (Diversity)
Heritage and Ethnicity Resources (Diversity)