The main aim of the Department of Turkish Education is to pioneer the developments in this field by producing knowledge on the teaching of Turkish as a mother tongue and teaching Turkish as a second language and to train Turkish teachers needed by educational institutions. Our department fulfills its public responsibility by training Turkish teachers who can use contemporary language teaching methods, who are open to continuous development, who have the universal values and competencies of teaching, and who have the awareness of national and international solidarity in the protection and development of these values and competencies.