Students in Austria may soon be able to graduate in Turkish.

The federal education ministry of Social Democrat (SPO) Claudia Schmied announced that the language may become the 14th foreign language learners in the country can pick at their final exams. Turkish has been taught as an optional subject in many secondary modern schools which have focused on languages for some time, but can currently not be chosen as a final exam subject.

The education ministry’s announcement comes on the back of news that Graz University plans to introduce Turkish as a subject for teachers-to-be. Other universities are expected to follow the example, while the ministry stressed it saw no deadline or timeframe for improving the status of Turkish among school subjects by allowing students to opt for it at the so-called Matura exams, austriantimes.at reported.