they´re airing this new show on MBC here called la makan la watan (its a turkish show) it means no place no vatan

anyway, whats weird about this show is that (first its taking place i the 21 century, in a rural village in turkey) all the signs and everything thats written on the walls is written in arabic letters, but i ahve no idea what it says, its not arabic, i was wondering, could this be the old arabic letterd turkish? And does anybody still use it??? I thought it died out  a long time ago! How could this be?

Nobody has an explanation for this???

I haven´t seen the show you are talking about, nor do I know what show it is, no place no vatan doesnt sound familiar to me..

And what do you mean by writings on the wall? Just old inscriptions? Then it could very well be Osmanic, which indeed died out. It changed over the years from a complex mixture of Arabic, Persian and Turkish to a more Turkish structure, the Osmanic turkish of the last days of the Osman Empire looked very much like the first ´real Turkish´ of the Turkish republic under atatürk, when atatürk imposed reforms on the language and also changed the Arabic script to the western script.

So yes it is no longer in use, Arabic script was changed for latin script in 1928, but inscriptions on walls etc can still date from earlier times I suppose.

You should be a little more specific.

 By writings on the wall i mean graffiti, shop signs are also written in the same form, and yes i know everything about the language change that ataturk made and its transtions and everything, maybe i translated the title a bit to literally, it means , no place to got to no home to go to, in all, no place in the world (the feeling of not belonging).

DK can i ask you a questio, for some reason  feel that everything i write provokes you, i dont know why, i feel like what i say gets on your nerves.

Sorry if its true anyway.

 That´s just ridiculous, now you got on my nerves

How did my genuine answer above, in which I gave an explanation to you as far as I could without having seen the show, and asking you for more details so I could give you a better explanation, give you the idea that you provoke me???

 No,no, not only nw, its a general feeling, in many forums, not just recent ones.

I feel like you cant stand me i dont know why.

Well that is your own feeling and I have no idea where you got that from, nor do I feel I did anything to give you such feeling.

 Really?  You don´t notice it?

is that a "soup opera"? where are they from eaxactly? I mean which part of Turkey, what city? And if the name is "la makan la watan", I suppose that is a historical movie, so it may be not Turkey but Ottoman State. What do you think?

No one uses it by the way. Maybe only for conservative arts.

 Nope! No responds to her PERSONALLY that I wouldn´t make to anyone else if they´d said the same.