The journal Turkic Languages is devoted to linguistic Turcology. It addresses descriptive, comparative, synchronic, diachronic, theoretical, and methodological problems of the study of Turkic languages including questions of genetic, typological and areal relations, linguistic variation, and language acquisition. The journal aims at presenting work of current interest on a variety of subjects, and thus welcomes contributions on all aspects of Turkic language studies. It contains articles, review articles, reviews, discussions, reports, and surveys of publications. The journal uses a double blind review system in selecting articles for publication. The preferred language of publication is English. From the contents (altogether 7 contributions): Osman Abdukerim, historical survey of the Uyghur actional operator {-(I)wät-} Hao Guo, Denying without saying ‘no’ in Kazakh as spoken in China Mehmet Akkuş & Soheila Ahmadi , The ethnolinguistic vitality of Khalaj Memet Aktürk-Drake, The effects of national integration policies on the maintenance of Turkish as a heritage language in Northwestern Europe