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Turkey
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 The country 's official language is Turkish , which is spoken by 85 @.@ 54 percent of the population as mother tongue . 11 @.@ 97 percent of the population speaks the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish as mother tongue . Arabic and Zaza are the mother tongues of 2 @.@ 39 percent of the population , and several other languages are the mother tongues of smaller parts of the population . Endangered languages in Turkey include Abaza , Abkhaz , Adyge , Cappadocian Greek , Gagauz , Hértevin , Homshetsma , Kabard @-@ Cherkes , Ladino ( Judesmo ) , Laz , Mlahso , Pontic Greek , Romani , Suret , Turoyo , Ubykh , and Western Armenian . 

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 It has been decided that provinces , districts , towns , villages , mountains , and rivers , which are named in languages belonging to non @-@ Muslim nations such as Armenian , Greek or Bulgarian , will be renamed into Turkish . In order to benefit from this suitable moment , this aim should be achieved in due course . 

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 In modern Turkish , the name is written as İstanbul , with a dotted İ , as the Turkish alphabet distinguishes between a dotted and dotless I. In English the stress is on the last syllable ( bul ) , but in Turkish it is on the second syllable ( tan ) . A person from the city is an İstanbullu ( plural : İstanbullular ) , although Istanbulite is used in English . 

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 Geographical name changes in Turkey have been undertaken , periodically , in bulk from 1913 to the present by successive Turkish governments . Thousands of names within the Turkish Republic or the Ottoman Empire have lost or departed from their popular or historic alternatives in favour of recognizably Turkish names , as part of the Turkification policy . The governments have argued that such names are foreign and / or divisive against Turkish unity . Names changed were usually of Armenian , Greek , Laz , Georgian , Bulgarian , Kurdish , Assyrian , or Arabic origin . 

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 Turkey is also subdivided into 7 regions and 21 subregions for geographic , demographic and economic purposes ; this does not refer to an administrative division . 
