F. Tulga Ocak (14 May 1946 – 20 November 2019) was a Turkish academic and professor of classical Turkish literature and Persian language. She worked at Hacettepe University.[1]

F. Tulga Ocak
F. Tulga Ocak, November 2011
Born(1946-05-14)14 May 1946
Died20 November 2019(2019-11-20) (aged 73)
Resting placeAnkara
NationalityTurkish
CitizenshipTurkey
Alma materAnkara University
Tehran University
Known forClassical Turkish poetry
Nef'i
Scientific career
FieldsDivan poetry
InstitutionsHacettepe University
Doctoral advisorMehdi Mohaghegh

Early life and education

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Ocak was born on 14 May 1946 in Gaziantep.[2] She is the daughter of Ali Kemal Ocak (1911-1964),[3] a member of the Turkish parliament for Democrat Party from Gaziantep for three terms between 1950 and 1960[4] and elder brother of Kamil Ocak. After graduating from TED Ankara College she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Turkish literature from Ankara University in 1968.[5] Her undergraduate thesis is about the divan of Selanikli Esat.[5] She received PhD from Tehran University and the title of her thesis is Aḥvāl va ās̲ār va taḥlīl-i ashʻār-i dīvān-i Fārsī-i Aḥmad Dāʻī.[6] The advisor of the thesis is Iranian academic and scholar Mehdi Mohaghegh. The study which is about the Persian divan of Ahmad Dai, an early Ottoman poet, was published in Persian in 2006.[6][7][8]

Career

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Ocak was a faculty member in the department of Turkish language and literature at Hacettepe University until May 2013.[9] She was among the early members of the department.[10] In 1980, she became associate professor and her study for the title was entitled Nef'i and his Turkish divan.[11] She became professor in 1988. In 1991, she was appointed first vice rector of Ahmet Yesevi University in Kazakhstan.[12] She was the head of the department of Turkish language and literature at Hacettepe University from 2005 to 2009.[13]

Work

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Ocak analysed poems and divan of Nef'i, a major poet in Ottoman poetry.[14][15][16] She also published articles about other divan poets, including Sultan Veled.[17][18] She is the coeditor of Ölümünün üçyüzellinci yılında Nef'î (1991) which is concerned with the works of Nef'i.[19] She is the editor of the second edition of Modern Bilimin Doğuşunda Bizans'ın Etkisi Var mıdır?, a book by Sevim Tekeli.[20] She participated in various conferences on Persian literature last of which was in Tehran in May 2010.[21]

Her pupils and colleagues published a book for her in 2013, entitled Prof. Dr. F. Tulga Ocak'a Armağan.[2][22]

References

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  1. ^ "Yitirdiklerimiz - Prof. Dr. F. Tulga Ocak" (PDF). Türk Dili (in Turkish). Ankara. December 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Prof. Dr. F. Tulga Ocak'a Armağan" (PDF). Hacettepe University. Ankara. 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  3. ^ Türkischer Biographischer Index / Turkish Biographical Index. Walter de Gruyter. January 2004. p. 751. ISBN 978-3-11-096577-3.
  4. ^ "TBMM Album". Turkish Grand National Assembly. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  5. ^ a b Ismail Ünver. "Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Çalışmaları" (PDF). Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi.
  6. ^ a b Aḥvāl va ās̲ār va taḥlīl-i ashʻār-i dīvān-i Fārsī-i Aḥmad Dāʻī. OCLC 123943184. Retrieved 26 November 2013 – via WorldCat.
  7. ^ "Ocak, Fatma Tulga". WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  8. ^ Fatma Tulga Ocak (2006). احوال و آثار و تحلیل اشعار دیوان فارسی احمد داعی. انجمن آثار و مفاخر فرهنگی. ISBN 9789645280091.
  9. ^ "Faculty members". Hacettepe University. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  10. ^ "Şükrü Elçin". Yeniçağ. October 2008. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  11. ^ Berrin Akalın (2009). "Aŧŧār, Hayatı, Eserleri ve Eserleriyle İlgili Çalışmalar" (PDF). International Journal of Central Asian Studies. 13.
  12. ^ "Ahmet Yesevi University". Yurtdışı Eğitim Merkezi. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  13. ^ "History". Department of Turkish language and literature. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  14. ^ Muhsin Macit. "Söz meydanının usta binicisi:Nef'i" (PDF). Dil ve Edebiyat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2013.
  15. ^ Tulga Ocak. "Nef'i için söylenmiş bir hiciv beyti üzerine". Arastirmax. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  16. ^ Tulga Ocak (1985). "Ölümünün 350. yılında Nef'i" (PDF). HU Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi. 3 (2).
  17. ^ Hayati Kuzucu. "Milli Tarihimiz ve Kimliğimiz" (PDF). Burdur Tarihi. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  18. ^ Formats and editions. OCLC 282112463. Retrieved 26 November 2013 – via WorldCat.
  19. ^ Mehmed Çavuşoğlu; Fatma Tulga Ocak; İsmail Ünver (1991). Ölümünün üçyüzellinci yılında Nef'î. Atatürk Kültür, Dil, ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu. ISBN 978-975-16-0310-4.
  20. ^ S. Dilek Yalçın Çelik (4 January 2012). "Modern Bilimin Doğuşunda Bizans'ın Etkisi Var mıdır? Sevim Tekeli'nin araştırması". Dag Media. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  21. ^ "Tahran, Türk Edebiyatı ile buluşuyor". Yeni Safak. 1 May 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  22. ^ "Prof. Dr. Umay Türkeş-Günay" (PDF). Yödak. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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