University

Land

Student Exchange

Teaching Staff Exchange

Period of Validity

Outgoing  

Incoming  

Outgoing  

Incoming  

U.K.

2

2

-

-

2007-2008

Poland

1

1

2

2

2007-2008

Greece

-

3

1

1

2007-2008

U.K.

9

9

1

-

2005-2008

Estonia

3

3

1

1

2005-2008

Code

Name of the Course

CR

ECTS

Code

Name of the Course

CR

ECTS

24

Introduction to Turcology

2

3

1

Turkish Tribes

2

3

164

Turkey Turkish Grammar I

2

3

171

Main Source of Turkish Folklore Literature

2

3

165

Sorts in New Turkish Literature

2

3

172

Turkey Turkish Grammar II

2

3

166

Knowledge of Verse

2

3

173

Methods of Text Analyses

2

3

167

Introduction to Ottoman Turkish  I

6

5

174

Introduction to Turkish Folklore Literature

2

3

168

Introduction to Old Turkish Literature

2

3

175

History of Turkish Language

2

3

169

Folklore

2

3

176

Literary Techniques

2

3

170

Introduction to New Turkish Literature

2

3

177

Introduction to Ottoman Turkish II

6

5

Total

18

26

Total

18

26

Code

Name of the Course

CR

ECTS

Code

Name of the Course

CR

ECTS

66

Ottoman Turkish Grammar I

2

4

6

Turkey Turkish Syntax  II

2

5

178

Turkey Turkish Syntax  I

2

5

194

Ottoman Turkish Grammar II

2

4

179

New Turkish Literature I

2

4

195

Epope in Turkish Folk Literature

2

4

180

Mythology-Legend

2

4

196

Old Uigur Turkish

2

5

181

Old Turkish

2

5

197

Turkish Literature  History of XV. Century

2

4

182

Turkish Literature  History of XI.–XIV. Centuries

2

4

198

New Turkish Literature II

2

4

Elective

4

4

Elective

4

4

Total

16

30

Total

16

30

Code

Name of the Course

CR

ECTS

Code

Name of the Course

CR

ECTS

9

Tales and Folk Stories

2

5

222

Traditional Folk Plays

2

4

28

Karakhanid Turkish

4

6

220

Caghatay Turkish

2

4

68

Old Anatolian Turkish Grammar

2

5

84

Old Anatolian Turkish Texts

2

4

209

Turkish Literature  History of XVI. Century

2

5

224

Turkish Literature  History of XVII.- XVIII. Centuries

2

4

210

National Literature

2

5

221

Turkish Literature in Republic Era I 

2

5

223

Interpretation of Mystical Texts

2

5

Elective

4

4

Elective

4

4

Total

16

30

Total

16

30

Code

Name of the Course

CR

ECTS

Code

Name of the Course

CR

ECTS

234

Khwarezm Turkish

2

5

246

Kipchak Turkish

2

4

235

Folklore Literature Based on Religion And Mysticism

2

5

247

Turkish Literature in Republic Era III

2

4

236

Turkish Literature in Republic Era II

4

6

248

Composition II

2

4

237

Composition I

2

5

249

Folklore And Spherical Culture

2

4

238

Interpretation Text I

2

5

250

Âsık Literature

2

5

251

Interpretation Text II

2

5

Elective

4

4

Elective

4

4

Total

16

30

Total

16

30

Aims and Objectives

Giving information about Turcology’s matter.

To introduce basic works of Turcology.

Explaining past and present situation of Turkish world.

To clasify their languages and dialects.

Course Contents

• Knowledge about Turcology.
• Past and present situation of Turkish world.
• Their language and dialects, their classification.
• Fundamental hand books, works, lexicons, grammar books, and literature histories of Turcology.
• Important works and journals published in Turkey and in foreign countries.
• Library works that lead students to read these sources.

Assessment Methods:

Two written examinations (40% of midterm and 60% of final exam).

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta (phTF) Bd. I, Wiesbaden 1959, II 1964.

DİLÇAR, A.: General Look to Turkish Language (TDK) Ankara, 1964.

Yazıki Naradov SSSR. II; Tyurskie yazıki  Moskova, 1966.

YÜCE, Nuri; “Turkish Languages and Dialects” , İA 12/2 (= Encyclopedia of Islam,  İstanbul 1987), 468b-530b.

 YÜCE, Nuri: Course notes haven’t been published yet; to be glanced over and updated every year.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the students Turkish phonetic and to win the ability of comparing different period of Turkish.

Course Contents

• Language 
• Language Relativities
• Language Tips
• Dialect, Accent  
• Common Language  
• Speaking and Writing Language  
• Parts of Grammar  
• Situation of Turkish Language in other Languages  
• Developing Periods of Turkish Language  
• Structure of Turkish Language
• Phonetic characteristic of Turkish Language  

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations (40% of midterm and 60% of final).

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

• Ergin Muharrem, Türk Dil Bilgisi, Bayrak Yayınları , İstanbul 2004.
• Özkan M., Esin, Tören, Türk Dili Yazılı Ve Sözlü Anlatım, Filiz Kitabevi, İstanbul 2001.
• Banguoğlu Tahsin,Türkçenin Grameri, Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2003.
• Korkmaz Zeynep, Türkiye Türkçesi Grameri (Şekil Bilgisi), Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2003.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is, to establis literary sorts which are using on this cycle.  

Course Contents

• Also, poem was breathe since the origin of Turkish liretature, on the cycle of modernizm period, some changes become on concepts and applications. The purpose of this lesson is to study sort of poem with the case of that changings.   
• Also it is possible to met some examples in Classical Liretature, prose poem is a new sort of modernizm cycle. Main aim of this course is to tell, prose poem with its examples.
• To tell, novel, story, theatre, article, essay which are new recognizing.   

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations (40% of midterm and 60% of final).

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Aims and Objectives

The acquirements and knowledge about the  sorts of verse, rhyme and the meter of ‘aruz’ which are necessary in order to understand the texts of the Turkish Classical Literature are handled in this course. Because of the contents of the course, those acquirements and knowledge also contain basic information which helps understanding the texts of the Turkish New Literature before the term of Republic. The acquirements and knowledge argued out in this course are  relevant to the most of the subjects handled for four years, of the Turkish Literature and Language

Course Contents

• The variety of poem and sorts of verse.
• The meter of ‘aruz’
• Rhyme
• The genres of the Turkish Classical Literature.

Assessment Methods

Under the relevant system, two term examinations, one  final examination.  40 % of 2 term examinations and 60 % of the final exam determine the grade of the student.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Edebiyat Bilgi ve Teorileri Kaya Bilgegil(The Acquirement and Theories of Literature),  Muallim Naci, Edebiyat Terimleri(The Terms of Literature)  (Prepared by: M. A. Yekta Saraç), Klasik Edebiyat Bilgisi Belagat (The Acquirement of the Classical Literature Rhetoric) M. A. Yekta Saraç.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the writing and reading the alphabet that used in Ottoman

Turkish.

Course Contents

• Situation of Ottoman Turkish at common Turkish and West
• Turkish basic information for Ottoman Turkish
• Writing rules for Ottoman Turkish
• Reading at writing studies on the texts.
• Studying by homework for developing reading and writing of texts

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations (40% of midterm and 60% of final)

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Develi Hayati, Osmanlı Türkçesi Kılavuzu 1 (3. Baskı), 3F Yayınları, İstanbul 2006.

Timurtaş Faruk K. , Osmanlı Türkçesine Giriş ( 20. Baskı) , Alfa Yayım Dağıtım, İstanbul 2000.

Özkan M., Doğan E., Kemik F., Uluçay M., Çözümlemeli Osmanlı Türkçesi Metinleri, Çağrı Yayınları , İstanbul 2003.

Devellioğlu Ferit, Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lugat, Aydın Kitabevi Yayınları , Ankara 1998.

Şemseddin Sami , Kâmûs-ı Türkî,Enderun Kitabevi, İstanbul 1989.

Aims and Objectives

The classification and analysis of the Turkish Classical Literature, has a cultural accumulation for thousands years,  by the aspect of  the sources and the sampling about how those sources take place in the texts; the cultural background of the old Turkish literature.

Course Contents

• The general features of the Turkish Classical Literature.
• The sources shaping the Turkish Classical Literature.
• The literatures of the other nations influencing the Turkish Classical Literature.
• The general subjects of  the Turkish Classical Literature.

Assessment Methods

Under the relevant system, two term examinations, one  final examination.  40 percentage of 2 term examinations and 60 percentage of the final exam determine the grade of the student.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Agah Sırrı Levent, Divan Edebiyatı (The Literature of Ottoman Poetry)/ Fuzuli,  Leyla ile Mecnun (Layla and Macnun) (prepared by: Muhammet Nur Doğan), / Muhammet Nur Doğan, Fatih Divanı ve Şerhi (the Collection of Fatih, the Conqueror and its interpretation  / the other notes required for the course.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the students methodology and different opinions of folklore. 

Course Contents :

•  History of folklore and researching phases
•  History ofl folklore studies
•  Folklore in Turkey
•  Theories of folklore
•  Researching methods of folklore
•  Field Works (Compilation works on the field)

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations, 40% of midterm and 60% of final

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Handouts are suplied by the Department

Aims and Objectives

As a branch of fine arts, the process of appearance of literature and to determine the relation between reader. Also to get the students think about the main problems of New Turkish Literature.

Course Contents

• What is literature and literary work?
• What is litearature history?
• What were the initial litarature history Works?
• Knowledge about the sources of the Turkish literature.
• Abrief looking onto the genesis of New Turkish literature.
• Role of the press during this period. Periods of Turkish literature from 19th century up to now, literary circles, general information about literary genres.

Assessment Methods

 Midterm Exam    (%40),  Final Exam          (%60)

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Rene Wellek-Austin Warren,  Edebiyat Biliminin Temelleri

Aims and Objectives

Giving an information about Turkish Tribes that speak Turkish

Teaching their traditional folklores, oral inheritance that feed the language and some important hand books.

Course Contents

•    States and societies that Turkish is spoken, and the regions that they exist.
•    Their administrative situations and numbers.
•    Origins of Turkish groups.
•    Natural sources of their regions.
•    Group of their dialects and their aspects.
•    The alphabets that they used from the old times up to now.
•    Their folklore and oral inheritance that feed the language.
•    Their important literary works and the leading literary portraits.
•    Essential hand books and sources.

Assessment Methods

Two written examination 40% midterm and 60%

Text Book / Recommended Reading:

RADLOFF,  Wilhelm: Aus Sibirien I-II. Leipzig 1985; Turkish Translation; A. TEMİR: W. Radloff, From Sibirian (Aus Sibirien I*, I**, II*, II**, Translator: A. Temir. İstanbul, 1954-1957.

MENGES, Karl Heinrich: The Turkic Languages and Peoples. An Introduction to Turkic Studies (UAB, 15). Wiesbaden 1968.

YÜCE, Nuri: “The Turkish Language- The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, Volume Five: Culture and Learning in Islam, Chapter 3.(Published in 2003 by the UNESCO. Paris, Beirut), 55-64.

           YÜCE, Nuri: Course notes; that haven’t been published yet; to be glanced over and updated every year.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the students Main Sources of Turkish Folk Literature.

Course Contents

• What is the main sources of Turkish folk literature
• What is the specialty of main sources of Turkish folk literature
• what is the historical development of main sources of Turkish folk literature

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations, 40% of midterm and 60% of final

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Handouts are suplied by the Department

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the students morphological rules of Turkish. Also we give the structure of Turkish in this course.

Course Contents

• Morphological characteristics of Turkish Language
• Suffixes and bases
• Nominal root, verbal root
• Stems
• Derivational affix
• Ending terminations
• Infinite verb forms
• Structural types of words
• Meaning and the function of words.

Assessment Methods

two written examination, 40% of midterm and 60%of final

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Ergin Muharrem, Türk Dil Bilgisi, Bayrak Yayınları , İstanbul 2004.

Özkan M., Esin, Tören, Türk Dili Yazılı Ve Sözlü Anlatım, Filiz Kitabevi, İstanbul 2001.

Banguoğlu Tahsin,Türkçenin Grameri, Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2003.

Korkmaz Zeynep, Türkiye Türkçesi Grameri (Şekil Bilgisi), Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2003.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the course is to teach the importance of text analysis to understand and prove the messages of literary works.

Course Contents  

• Analysing methods of poetry and story;
• Poems; Açık Deniz (Yahya Kemal), Altın Destan (Ziya Gökalp), Süleymaniye Kürsüsünden (M.A.Ersoy), Anadolu’dan Bir Ses (M. E. Yurdakul), Yollar (Ahmet Haşim), Sis (Tevfik Fikret), Elhan-ı Şita (C. Şehabettin), Hürriyet Kasidesi (Namık Kemal)
• and stories; Ecir ve Sabır (H. R. Gürpınar), Ferhunde Kalfa (H. Z. Uşaklıgil), Üzümcü (A. H. Müftüoğlu), Başını Vermeyen Şehit (Ö. Seyfettin) are analysed in this lesson.

Assessment Methods

Midterm Exam   (% 40)

Final exam          (%60)

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Mehmet Kaplan,  Şiir Tahlilleri

Mehmet Kaplan,  Hikâye Tahlilleri

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the students poetry of pre- islamic  and islamic periods.

Course Contents

•  Constitution period of Turkish literature (Social and cultural conditions)
•  Initial poems and poets 3.Turkish poetry in Uygur era
•  Folklore during İslamic era
•  Anonymous Turkish poetry (Forms and types)
•  Mystic folk poetry
•  Ashık literature
•  Folk prose (legends, tales, folk stories etc.)
•  Folk performance plays ( Village plays, orta oyunu, Karagöz, meddah etc.)

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations, 40% of midterm and 60% of final

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Handouts are suplied by the Department

Aims and Objectives

Aim is to give general information about history and development of Turkish language, other relative languages and Uralic and Altaic theories.

Course Contents

• Uralic- Altaic theories
• Internal and external history of language  

Assessment Methods

Two written examination 40% midterm and 60%

Text Book / Recommended Reading:

CAFEROĞLU, Ahmet: Türk Dili Tarihi I-II, İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 1974

ERCİLASUN, Ahmet Bican: Türk Dili Tarihi- Başlangıçtan Yirminci Yüzyıla, Akçağ Yayınları, İstanbul, 2004.

YÜCE, Nuri: Course notes; that haven’t been published yet; to be glanced over and to be updated every year.

Aims and Objectives

The acquirements about the literary techniques required for the proper understanding of the texts of The Turkish Classical Literature, the sorts of verse, rhyme and subjects of ‘aruz’ meter are discussed. Because of the contents of the course, those acquirements also contain basic information which helps understanding the texts of the Turkish New Literature before the term of Republic. The acquirements argued out in this course are  relevant to the most of the subjects handled for four years, of the Turkish Literature and Language

Course Contents:

• Literary Techniques
• The meter of ‘Aruz’
• Rhyme

Assessment Methods

Under the relevant system, two term examinations, one  final examination.  40 percentage of 2 term examinations and 60 percentage of the final exam determine the grade of the student.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Edebiyat Bilgi ve Teorileri ( The Acquirement and Theories of Literature) Kaya Bilgegil,

Muallim Naci, Edebiyat Terimleri (The Terms of Literature)(Haz: M. A. Yekta Saraç),

Klasik Edebiyat Bilgisi Belagat (The Acquirement of the Classical Literature, Rhetoric) M. A. Yekta Saraç.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the writing and reading the texts from 19. and 20. centuries Ottoman Turkish.

Course Contents

• Text reading
• Turkish basic information for Ottoman Turkish
• Reading and writing studies on the texts.
• Studying by homework for developing reading and writing of texts
• Grammar of Ottoman turkish

Assessment Methods

two written examination, 40% of midterm and 60%of final

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Develi Hayati, Osmanlı Türkçesi Kılavuzu 1 (3. Baskı), 3F Yayınları, İstanbul 2006.

Timurtaş Faruk K. , Osmanlı Türkçesine Giriş ( 20. Baskı) , Alfa Yayım Dağıtım, İstanbul 2000.

Özkan M., Doğan E., Kemik F., Uluçay M., Çözümlemeli Osmanlı Türkçesi Metinleri, Çağrı Yayınları , İstanbul 2003.

Devellioğlu Ferit, Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lugat, Aydın Kitabevi Yayınları , Ankara 1998.

Şemseddin Sami , Kâmûs-ı Türkî,Enderun Kitabevi, İstanbul 1989.      

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to know the Arabic structures in Ottoman Turkish.

Course Contents

• Arabic Grammar rules in Ottoman Turkish
• Arabic determinative group in Ottoman Turkish
• Arabic word class in Ottoman Turkish
• Infinite verb forms in Arabic in Ottoman Turkish
• Plurals of Arabic forms in Ottoman Turkish
• Arabic postpositions in Ottoman Turkish
• Arabic structures on texts in Ottoman Turkish
• Practice on 19.^th century texts

Assessment Methods

two written examination, 40% of midterm and 60%of final exam

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Develi Hayati, Osmanlı Türkçesi Kılavuzu 2 (3. Baskı), 3F Yayınları, İstanbul 2006.

Timurtaş Faruk K. , Osmanlı Türkçesi Grameri ( 10. Baskı) , Alfa Yayım Dağıtım, İstanbul 2000.

Timurtaş Faruk K. , Osmanlı Türkçesi Metinleri ( 10. Baskı) , Alfa Yayım Dağıtım, İstanbul 2000.

Özkan M., Doğan E., Kemik F., Uluçay M., Çözümlemeli Osmanlı Türkçesi Metinleri, Çağrı Yayınları , İstanbul 2003.

Devellioğlu Ferit, Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lugat, Aydın Kitabevi Yayınları , Ankara 1998.

Şemseddin Sami , Kâmûs-ı Türkî,enderun Kitabevi, İstanbul 1989.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to introduce the students the word groups in Turkish ; to  obtain the ability of  comparing the word groups  in different Periods of Turkish

Course Contents

• Word groups
• Determinative groups
• Group of participle
• Group of gerunds
• Group of dative
• Group of locative
• Group of ablative
• Group of postpositions
• Group of connection  
• Group of numeral
• Group of  apposition  
• Group of instrumental
• Investigations on texts

Assessment Methods

two written examination, 40% of midterm and 60%of final exam

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Ergin Muharrem, Türk Dil Bilgisi, Bayrak Yayınları , İstanbul 2004.

Özkan M., Esin, Tören, Türk Dili Yazılı Ve Sözlü Anlatım, Filiz Kitabevi, İstanbul 2001.

Banguoğlu Tahsin,Türkçenin Grameri, Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2003.

Korkmaz Zeynep, Türkiye Türkçesi Grameri (Şekil Bilgisi), Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2003.

Karahan Leyla, Türkçede Sözdizimi - Cümle Tahlilleri, Akçağ Yayınları, Ankara 2004.

Yelten Muhammet, H. Açıkgöz, Kelime Grupları, Doğu Kütüphanesi Yayınları, İstanbul 2005

Aims and Objectives

To tell about the affection of political, social and cultural events in Turkey during the appearance of New Turkish Literature related to important characters and literary works.

Course Contents 

•   Transformation and development that seen in Turkish poetry after Tanzimat are studied by caring the historical conditions and
• the leading literary portraits such as Ahmet Cevdet Paşa, Münif Paşa, Ziya Paşa, Namık Kemal, Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, Abdülhak Hamid, Muallim Naci.

Assessment Methods

Midterm Exam   (% 40)

Final Exam         (% 60)

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar,  19. Asır Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the students what is the myht, Illustrations frrom other nations’ mythologies and their analyses, maning of legend and its genesis.

Course Contents :

• Content of mythology
• Works on mythology
•  Folklore in Turkey
• Origin myths and cosmogonic myths
• Relations of mythology and other literary genres
• Illustrations frrom other nations’ mythologies and their analyses
• Meaning of legend and its genesis

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations, 40% of midterm and 60% of final

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Handouts are suplied by the Department

Aims and Objectives:

To meet the students with the initial sources of Turkish, Kökturk Inscriptions and get them to study grammatically.

Course Contents:

• By using the initial sources of Turkish
• Göktürk inscriptions
• the structure of Old Turkish is studied grammatically

Assessment Methods

There are two exams for this course.One is quiz exam and the other is main. Forty percent of quiz exam and sixty percent of main course are taken for calculated of students marks.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

ERGİN, Muharrem, Orhun Inscriptions, Boğaziçi Publications, İstanbul, 2000.

SERTKAYA, Osman Fikri, Some Problems of Kökturk History, TKAE, Ankara, 1995.

THOMSEN, V. (Translator and Publication Assistant:Vedat Köken), Orhon Inscriptions Researches, TDK, Ankara, 2002.

Aims and Objectives

The branches of the Turkish Literature which developed after 11^th century. The Turkish Literature in the term of Karahanid. Culture, science and literature  in the term of the state of Gazne. Culture, science and literature in the time of Seljukies. The influence of Sufism, grown up in Turkistan, on the Turkish Literature and its first works. The era of beginning and formation of the Turkish Literature in Anatolia.( Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Sultan Valad, Ahmet Fakih, Dehhani, Şeyyad Hamza, Yunus Emre, Aşık Paşa etc.)

Course Contents

• The development of the Turkish Poetry after 11^th century.
• The factors affecting the development in question.
• The first works.
• The lives and works of the grand poets of the term mentioned
• The influence of Sufism on the literature of the term mentioned
• The status of Turkish in the term mentioned

Assessment Methods

Under the relevant system,  2 term examinations, one  final examination.  40 percentage of 2 term examinations and 60 percentage of the final exam determine the grade of the student.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Resimli Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi(Turkish Literature History with illustrations and pictures) Nihad Sami Banarlı,  the essays and articles relevant to the course, and course notes.      

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to introduce the students the types of sentences in Turkish; to obtain the ability of comparing the sentences in different Periods of Turkish.

Course Contents

• Sentence at Turkish
• Parts that builds sentence
• Sentences by structural characteristics
• Sentences by the order of parts
• Sentences by the type of predicate
• Verbal sentences
• Nominal sentences
• Simple sentences
• Compound sentences
• Affirmative sentences
• Negative sentences
• Interrogative sentences
• Investigations on texts

Assessment Methods

two written examination, 40% of midterm and 60%of final exam

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Ergin Muharrem, Türk Dil Bilgisi, Bayrak Yayınları , İstanbul 2004.

Özkan M., Esin, Tören, Türk Dili Yazılı Ve Sözlü Anlatım, Filiz Kitabevi, İstanbul 2001.

Banguoğlu Tahsin, Türkçenin Grameri, Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2003.

Korkmaz Zeynep, Türkiye Türkçesi Grameri (Şekil Bilgisi), Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara 2003.

Karahan Leyla, Türkçede Sözdizimi - Cümle Tahlilleri, Akçağ Yayınları, Ankara 2004.

Yeltan Muhammet, H. Açıkgöz, Kelime Grupları, Doğu Kütüphanesi Yayınları, İstanbul 2005.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to know the Persian structures in Ottoman Turkish.

Course Contents

• Persian grammar rules in Ottoman Turkish
• Persian determinative group in Ottoman Turkish
• Persian word class in Ottoman Turkish
• Infinite verb forms in Persian in Ottoman Turkish
• Persian derived word in Ottoman Turkish
• Persian postpositions in Ottoman Turkish
• Persian structures on texts
• Practice on 19.^th century texts

Assessment Methods

two written examination, 40% of midterm and 60%of final exam

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Develi Hayati, Osmanlı Türkçesi Kılavuzu 2 (3. Baskı), 3F Yayınları, İstanbul 2006.

Timurtaş Faruk K. , Osmanlı Türkçesi Grameri ( 10. Baskı) , Alfa Yayım Dağıtım, İstanbul 2000.

Timurtaş Faruk K. , Osmanlı Türkçesi Metinleri ( 10. Baskı) , Alfa Yayım Dağıtım, İstanbul 2000.

Özkan M., Doğan E., Kemik F., Uluçay M., Çözümlemeli Osmanlı Türkçesi Metinleri, Çağrı Yayınları , İstanbul 2003.

Devellioğlu Ferit, Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lugat, Aydın Kitabevi Yayınları , Ankara 1998.

Şemseddin Sami , Kâmûs-ı Türkî,enderun Kitabevi, İstanbul 1989.       

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the students content of epope and its genesis and Turkish epopes meaning and message.

Course Contents :

• Content of epope and its genesis
• Relation of epope with other literary genres
• Importance of epope
• Saka epopes
• Hun-Oghuz epopes
• Göktürk epopes
• Dokuz Oghuz-On Uigur epopes
• Turkish epopes in Islamic era
• Artificial epopes written for various historical and social events

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations, 40% of midterm and 60% of final

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Handouts are suplied by the Department.      

Aims and Objectives

Sevaral texts cited from Uighur are introduced students. And linguistic properties in this term are told.

Course Contents

•    Linguistic aspects of the Uigur era are investigated on the texts cited from Budist and Manihesit religous sources.

Assessment Methods

There are two exams for this course. One is quiz exam and the other is main. Forty percent of quiz exam and sixty percent of main course are taken for calculated of students marks.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Aims and Objectives

The Turkish Literature of 15^th century in the Turkish World. ( Anatolia, Middle East and Azerbaijan). The Turkish Literature and language in the time of beylicates. The beginning of Ottoman Poetry in Anatolia and first collections(divans). The basic principals and characteristics of Ottoman Poetry. The prose and its genres in the 15^th century. The grand poets of this term and examples from their poems.  ( Ahmed-i Dai, Ahmedi, Şeyhi, Ahmed Paşa, Necati)

Course Contents

• The general appearance of the Turkish Literature in the 15^th century.
• The grand poets of the time in question.
• Examples from their works.
• The general features of the poems belong to that time.
• The structure of the poems.
• The development of Cagatay and Azeri Literatures together with the literature in the domain of Anatolia.

Assessment Methods

Under the relevant system,  2 term examinations, one  final examination.  40 percentage of 2 term examinations and 60 percentage of the final exam determine the grade of the student.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Resimli Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi(The History of Turkish Literature with illustrations and pictures) Nihad Sami Banarlı, Amil Çelebioğlu, Mesnevi (the Mathnawi)/, Osmanlı Türkçesi  Metinleri (The Texts written in Ottoman Calligraphy)  Faruk Kadri Timurtaş / Course notes.

Aims and Objectives

Course Contents 

•  Development of new kinds which come from West literature such as novel-story and theatre in Turkish Literature, 
•  Important characters like Namık Kemal and Ahmet Mithat and their works,
• Common topics of novels, stories and theatres,
• Some analysis about these new kinds by the help of examples.

Assessment Methods

Midterm Exam   (% 40)

Final Exam         (% 60)

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is to teach the students general features of tale’s sources,relationship of tale with other folklore genres, analayzing the folk tales and strories.

Course Contents :

• General features of tales
• Sources
• Scientific researchs on tales
• Relationship of tale with other literary genres
• Tales of other nations
• Turkish tales
• General features of folk stories
• Relationship of folk stories with other literary genres
• Analyzing the folk stories
• Comparative analyses of Dede Korkut Kitabı
• Tahir ile Zühre and Kerem ile Aslı

Assessment Methods

Two written examinations, 40% of midterm and 60% of final

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Handouts are suplied by the Department

Aims and Objectives:

Introduction of Uighur alphabet, get the students to read texts with this alphabet and have them make some grammer studies on texts.

Course Contents:

• Grammatical studies are done on three outsatanding works (Divanu Lugati’t-Türk, Atabetü’l-hakayık,Kutadgu Bilig)  of Karakhanid Turkish which existed in the area from Kashgar to Maveraünnehir as a variety of Old Turkish. In addition Uigur alphabet is taught.

Assessment Methods:

There are two exams for this course.One is quiz exam and the other is main. Forty percent of quiz exam and sixty percent of main course are taken for calculated of students marks.

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

ARAT,Reşid Rahmeti, Kutadgu Bilig 1 Text, TDK, Ankara 1999.

ARAT,Reşid Rahmeti, Atabetü’l Hakayık,TDK, V.II,32, İstanbul Fire Publication,1951

ATALAY, Besim, Translation of Divanü Lûgati’t-Türk, V 1,2,3 TDK, Ankara, 1998.

Aims and Objectives

Main aim of this course is teach the students the transcription alphabet and the grammatical orders of Old Anatolian Turkish.

Course Contents

• Formation and periods of Old Anatolian Turkish
• Writing characteristics  of Old Anatolian Turkish
• Structural characteristics of texts at this period
• Phonetics of Old Anatolian Turkish
• Morphology of Old Anatolian Turkish
• Investigations on texts

Assessment Methods

two written examination, 40% of midterm and 60%of final exam

Prerequisite/ Recommended

Text Book / Recommended Reading

Ergin Muharrem, Türk Dil Bilgisi, Bayrak Yayınları , İstanbul 2004.

Özkan M., Türk Dilinin Gelişme Alanları ve Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Filiz Kitabeviİstanbul 2000.

Handouts are supplied by the department.