Türkischen

Türkischen is the inflected form of the German adjective Türkisch, meaning Turkish. In German, adjectives decline to reflect case, number, and gender, and after definite articles they typically take endings such as -en in plural forms. The form türkischen (lowercase t is standard in normal usage) appears in phrases like die türkischen Städte (nominative plural) or in den türkischen Ländern (dative plural). Capitalized forms such as Türkischen occur mainly at sentence start or in titles for orthographic reasons, but Türkisch is not a separate lexical entry; the ordinary adjective is türkisch.

The Turkish language, called Türkçe in Turkish, is a member of the Turkic language family, specifically the Oghuz branch. It is spoken mainly in Turkey and Cyprus, with sizable communities worldwide. Modern Turkish uses the Latin script since 1928, features agglutinative morphology and vowel harmony, and follows a subject–object–verb word order. Standard Turkish has undergone extensive language planning and modernization since the early 20th century, shaping its vocabulary, orthography, and grammar. The language includes loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and European languages, reflecting centuries of contact.

In German-speaking contexts, Turkish is a prominent minority language due to immigration and diaspora communities. It influences German through bilingual speech and a large number of Turkish loanwords in everyday language, cuisine, media, and cultural life. The term Türkischen thus functions within German grammar as a typical inflected form rather than as an independent linguistic topic, while the broader topic of Turkish covers its history, structure, and sociolinguistic presence.