English is the city's second language, closely followed by Russian and Turkish.
英语是这座城市的第二语言，紧接着是俄语和土耳其语。
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Staffed by locals and Turks alike, the schools are patronised by the offspring of elites lured by Western standards of education (if not mandatory Turkish-language classes).
He learned Dutch — and Dutch is a very difficult language — in 1696, while the Turkish war went on, or one of them he went off to Western Europe incognito as an embassy soldier.