The Department of Turkish Language and Literature offers a four year program of instruction at the undergraduate level. The goal of this four year program of instruction is to train individuals capable of scholarly research in the areas of the Turkish language's structure, development and relationship to other languages, and also in the fields of Turkish literature and folklore. Our department consist of two fundamental branches of scholarly research and instruction: Turkish Language and Turkish Literature.

The four majors which make up our department derive their source from these two branches. These four majors are:
1. The Old Turkish Language Major,
2.The Modern Turkish Language Major,
3.The Old Turkish Literature Major,
4.The Modern Turkish Literature Major. During the time of their instruction, students participate in both required and elective classes contained in the Department curriculum for these four majors.

The Department's courses on Turkish Grammar, Literary Knowledge and Ottoman Turkish are of a preparatory nature. Along with these, students study courses such as literary history, history of language and folk literature. Students prepare an "undergraduate thesis" at the end of their eight semester

The purpose of this programme is to educate personnel and researchers who are capable of scientific research and studies in subjects of determining the position of the Turkish language and literature in the world languages and literatures, its characteristics, its development and evaluation of its product and capable of transfering own knowledge and experience gained from education and training to secondary schools.

Graduates are able to define the development and exchange from first epigraphs in which Turkish emerged as written language; distinguish the features of Old Turkish, Old Uigur, Karakhanid Turkish, Khorezmian Turkish, Chagatai Turkish, Old Anatolian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and know in which Turkish language the manuscript was written; have information about the developmental stages of historical and contemporary Turkish, the tradition of writing, phonology, morphology, syntax, vocabulary and subdialect; define historical periods of Turkish literature and recognizes their distinctive literary and stylistic features.

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Head of Department Prof. Dr. Murat KÜÇÜK E-mail : mkucuk@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Ayşehan Deniz ABİK E-mail : denabik@cu.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Osman MERT E-mail : omert@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Halil İbrahim USTA E-mail : husta@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Paşa YAVUZARSLAN E-mail : yavuzarslan@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Önal KAYA E-mail : okaya@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Abdulkadir GÜRER E-mail : gurera@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Aysu ATA E-mail : ayata@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Jale DEMİRCİ E-mail : jdemirci@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Prof. Dr. Nurullah ÇETİN E-mail : ncetin@humanity.ankara.edu.tr CV :

Associate Prof. Dr. Mustafa Sever E-mail : severm38@hotmail.com CV :

Associate Prof. Dr. Erdoğan KUL E-mail : ekul@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Associate Prof. Dr. Ülkü ÇETİNKAYA E-mail : ucetinkaya@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Assistant Prof. Dr. Emine Gözde ÖZGÜREL E-mail : gozdeozgurel@gmail.com CV :

Assistant Prof. Dr. Ebubekir S. ŞAHİN E-mail : essahin@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Assistant Prof. Dr. Bilal Erdem DAĞISTANLIOĞLU E-mail : bedagistanlioglu@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Dr. Associate Prof. Dr. Ezgi METİN BASAT E-mail : ezgimetinbasat@gmail.com CV :

Dr. Dr. Meltem AYABAKAN İPEK E-mail : CV :

Research Assistant Dr. Hülya UYSAL E-mail : uysalh@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Research Assistant SEZEN ÖZKAN E-mail : szozkan@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Research Assistant SELDA ALPARSLAN E-mail : salparslan@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Research Assistant Ayşe Beril KARA E-mail : abkara@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Research Assistant Yunus SARAR E-mail : ysarar@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Research Assistant Ulaş Teber ÖZGENÇ E-mail : utozgenc@ankara.edu.tr CV :

Research Assistant Safiye ÇELEBİ ÇAM E-mail : scelebi@ankara.edu.tr CV :