Instr. Dr. Gülay AKIN has had two Scopus-indexed studies published.

Her first, a single-authored study focusing on the endangered status of the Hemshin language and examining the family language policies of its speakers, and her second, co-authored with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet AKKUŞ from Artvin Çoruh University and Prof. Dr. Çiğdem SAĞIN ŞİMŞEK from Middle East Technical University, examining the contemporary status of Laz, another endangered South Caucasian language, and the factors shaping its vitality within the framework of ethnolinguistic vitality theory, have been published.

We congratulate our colleague and wish her continued success.