Department of Turkish Language and Literature

General Information about the Department

The Turkish language opens up to you a region that is culturally, geographically, and historically connected to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Expertising Turkish language and literature at the Master's/Ph.D. level provides an understanding of Turkish culture, language history. The department offers to master on reading and interpreting the texts in both Old Turkic and Ottoman Turkish throughout the extensive modern courses. Academic works and lectures that are adopted in Master's/Ph.D. program include not only Turkish art and literature but also works of Ottoman and contemporary writers such as Seyh Galib, Yahya Kemal, and A. H. Tanpınar, etc.

Master's/Ph.D. program of the department of Turkish Language and Literature has a two-fold purpose: the very first aim is to supply specialists in the field of Teaching Turkish with basic skills of Turcology and to prepare students for advanced work at the level of academic studies as well as in the areas of core expertises such as applying different theorical approaches of linguistics to Turkic languages and literature; the second purpose is to provide students with the opportunity of conducting comprehensive Turkish and Turkic studies along with the study of other literature and cultures, both Eastern and Western.

The Department of Turkish Language and Literature is designed to provide students with an intercultural and comprehensive understanding of both the linguistics and cultural aspects of the Turkish language and literature. Along the same line, for close familiarity of students with a developmental line of Turkish and Turkic languages through historical texts of different eras, extensive courses covering the modern literary models of Old Turkic and Ottoman Turkish and contemporary methods of linguistics and literary analyses are given in the department.

Career Opportunities

The students who complete Master's/ Ph.D. program of Turkish Language and Literature Department can work in many fields by virtue of their specialization. They can work as Turkish teachers and literature teachers in the schools of Ministry of Education and in private courses. They can also work in the fields where Turkish Language and Literature expertise is required, such as media, press, visual media, archive and librarianship. Additionally, the students mentioned above can be employed as Turkish Language and Literature teachers in secondary schools and high schools, under the administration of the Ministery of Education and in private schools as well. Additionally Master's/Ph.D. students of our program can be employed as a lecturer both in state and private universities.

Why international students should choose this department to study

Master's/Ph.D. program of Turkish Language and Literature department guarantees to provide education in line with the scope and purpose mentioned above; and to resolutely make all kinds of effort that’s necessary to provide the students with a qualified, privileged education in the academic level of Turkish Language and Literature studies.

The mission of the Master's/Ph.D. program is to educate students who adopt its cultural values, who are able to think both creatively and critically, who are independent, who appreciate ethical values, who respect nature and are aware of environmental issues, who are rooted in the local and open to the global viewpoints with their self-confidence and scholarly attitudes, who take part in social and cultural foundations and successfully take on leadership positions anywhere in the world.

Anadolu University takes pride in its lively and colorful campus life. To support and enrich the academic experience with an active campus life, the university supports student clubs, arts and sports activities, and provides a variety of services from health care to counseling for students and staff. Thanks to its on-campus housing facilities, it remains active around the clock. Campus life aims to cultivate a liberal, democratic and happy student community.