[laplata]

I believe Erdoğan and Obama are pretty close. I read on a thread here some time ago that they converse in Arabic. -------- That's right. Erdogen doesn't speak English and he and Obama were off in a corner chatting away without a translator.

[Pelham]

But there is this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/12/why-turkeys-president-wants-to-revive-the-language-of-the-ottoman-empire/