{"id":56066,"date":"2011-01-19T12:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T08:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=56066"},"modified":"2011-01-19T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T08:32:19","slug":"turkey-university-to-begin-offering-armenian-language-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/19\/turkey-university-to-begin-offering-armenian-language-courses.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey University to Begin Offering Armenian-Language Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A living languages center has been established at the Diyarbak\u0131r-based Dicle University, where Kurdish, Zaza, Syriac, Armenian and Arabic language courses will be offered, reports Anadolu Ajansi.<\/p>\n<p>After the establishment of a living languages institute at Mardin Artuklu University in late 2009, the second such institute has been opened at Dicle University. The center, which will begin operations after final approval by the Higher Education Board (Y\u00d6K), will provide elective Kurdish, Syriac, Zaza and Arabic courses. The center will also open language courses to local residents.<\/p>\n<p>Dicle University Secretary-General Professor Sabri Eyig\u00fcn told the Anatolia news agency that Turkey and the southeastern region is very rich with respect to languages, indicating that it is the duty of universities to research these languages and provide data on them for the public.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Y\u00d6K is currently checking whether the university has completed necessary preparations regarding the center. \u201cI expect that the board will approve the establishment of the center soon and that it will begin operating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A living languages center has been established at the Diyarbak\u0131r-based Dicle University, where Kurdish, Zaza, Syriac, Armenian and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10268,14869,20372,20373,20374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}