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Old 03-06-2008, 11:41 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bigbossmatt View Post
My guess now is that it says Constantinople in Turkish.
Not easy... They changed their alphabet long ago :-)
Thumbs up for finding this Turkish alphabet, I somehow new that they once used the Arabic writing system in turkey, but I couldn't find it!!

For those interested, this is a good article (in French) regarding linguistic reform in Turkey: Turquie: la révolution linguistique d'Atatürk
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