Discover the history of our Department

The Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University admitted its first students during the 1998-1999 academic year and has awarded more than 120 MA degrees since 2001 and more than 35 Ph.D. degrees since 2005.

Over the years, faculty members have included Talât S. Halman, Şerif Aktaş, Metin And, İlhan Başgöz, Halil İnalcık, Laurent Mignon, Süha Oğuzertem, Zuhal Kargı Ölmez, Engin Sezer, Sevda Şener, Semih Tezcan, Öcal Oğuz, Nuran Tezcan, Hilmi Yavuz, Orhan Tekelioğlu and, currently, Mehmet Kalpaklı, Kudret Emiroğlu, Zeynep Seviner, Etienne Charrière, Peter Cherry and Ahmet Gürata.