Yunus Emre Institute has unveiled its first "Turkology Winter School" program for the foreign Turkologists doing their doctorates at the Turkology departments of  foreign universities.

As the leading institution in boosting the international recognition, reliability and respectability of Turkish language, Turkish culture and Turkey, Yunus Emre Institute invites Turkology students from different countries to Turkey.

Within the context of its "Turkology Project," the Institute engages in cooperation with Turkish, Turkology, and Turkish language and literature departments of universities in order to promote Turkish language, literature, culture and art and provide services abroad to those who are keen to be trained in this area. The Institute is working to increase the quality of the Turkish language and literature instruction and make it permanent, and it is preparing to host young Turkologist from different countries who seek to work on Turkish language in Turkey between January 27, and February 8, 2020. The Winter School will be rife with a busy schedule of seminars and events, and these seminars will be given by 18 academics who are experts in the field, giving the participants an opportunity to learn Turkology in its source.

Under the project, which also aims to foster friendship and cultural exchange between Turkey and other countries, the young participants will attend training programs to be undertaken in Ankara and Istanbul at the Turkology Winter School. The program brings together Turkey leading Turkologists and academics and young Turkologists and will take start with Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı's lecture on "Turkish history" on Monday, January 27. The program will resume with the seminar on "Old Anatolian Turkish," to be given by Prof. Dr. Gürel Gülsevin, the head of the Turkish Language Society, and the program will cover many areas namely the phonetics of Turkish, morphology of Turkish, Turkish folk literature, epic traditions, the Ottoman Turkish, and Turkish literature in the Constitutional monarchy and Republic eras.

In addition to the intense training, the participants will a have chance to visit historical and cultural sites in Ankara and Istanbul. In Ankara, they will pay a visit to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, the first and second parliament buildings, and Presidential Nation Library, which has the largest collection in Turkey. The cultural sightseeing in Istanbul will include Sultan Ahmed Mosque, the Hagia Sophia Museum, Basilica Cistern, Topkapı Palace, Galata Tower and Grand Bazaar.

Yunus Emre Institute's first Turkology Summer School will make it possible for the participants from the Turkology departments abroad to learn about the Turkology studies conducted in different countries and discuss new information and engage in interaction with different cultures.