This research project analyses the content of both historical and contemporary obituaries of Turkish people based in Belgium using NLP tools. Specifically, the focus is centered on the way the national identity formation is reflected in these obituaries. The aim is to develop a multilingual (i.e. Turkish, Dutch and French) corpus of death notices from available full-text in newspapers and the Web (e.g. Twitter) and develop a language model for the lesser sourced language of Turkish to conduct NLP analysis on the content of the texts.