Department of Turkish Language and Literature

Hello, I am one of the faculty members of 29 Mayıs University Turkish Language and Literature department and also the deputy dean of the literature faculty. I would like to inform you about our university and particularly the Turkish Language and Literature department. As you know the Turkish Language and Literature department offers a wide range of classes and historical perspectives. To receive an education from this department is truly difficult. One reason is that we have to teach a wide historical background which dates back to Turkic literature before Islam, the classical period after Islam, the westernization period, and the Republican period. This brings the need to combine multiple disciplines. This is really important for us and we try to help the students comprehend the literature within its own historical perspective and to learn it in truth and detail. We achieve doing this. Another issue is this: literature does not just mean history, it is also the science of examining texts outside of the historical discipline. This is also very important. In fact, we try to raise our students like literature engineers. Because examining texts in detail requires discipline. We try to teach them this discipline in detail. On the whole, we give this education with its theory. We try to examine literature theories which include classical and modern literature as well. Another issue is critical thinking. Any field of science, not just literature requires deep discussions and techniques based on a logical context. This is one of the main goals of our university and literature department. A student who graduates from Istanbul 29 Mayıs University must know the rules of logic and reasoning as well as the difference between critical thinking fallacies and true knowledge fallacies. Our goal is to teach literature as a discipline through this way and make it well known in our country as well. I would like to tell our candidates this: someone who choses Istanbul 20 Mayıs University will encounter critical thinking along with scientific thought and will need to know how to approach various topics with their friends by developing logical arguments. This is our aim. So basically, this university should be the number one choice of students who adore academic discipline and aim to be an academician or teacher. Besides literature they could also be successful in fields like commentating and editing because we offer classes in these fields also. I wish good luck to all our students and welcome them to our university.