About the author of Elementary Turkish
Dr. Kurtuluş Öztopçu is currently retired from teaching. For many years, he taught various courses related to Turkic languages at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, UCLA and UC Berkeley. He is the author of several scholarly books and articles all relating to Turkic languages, including Dictionary of the Turkic Languages and Elementary Azerbaijani.
Born in 1950 in Eskisehir, Turkey, Dr. Öztopçu received his B.A. in Literature (1971) from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at the University of Istanbul and his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1986) from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He is a member of the American Association of Teachers of Turkic (AATT).
For more information about Dr. Kurtuluş Öztopçu and his books please visit www.oztopcu.com
Other books by Kurtuluş Öztopçu
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Elementary Azerbaijani
ISBN: ISBN 978-0-9654388-7-2
The book includes 2 Audio CDs. Softcover, 374 pages, Price: U.S. $40.00
Printed by: MEGA Basım Yayın, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
A beginning level course for ’standard’ Azerbaijani, the official language of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the language spoken by educated Azerbaijani speakers. It is the first and only Azerbaijani textbook in Latin script, published in the West for English speakers. |
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A 14th-Century Archery Treatise in Mamluk-Kipchak: Kitab fi ‘Ilm an-Nushshab
ISBN: 9757981141
Published 2002, Istanbul
Book: U.S. $25.00
An English and Turkish bilingual edition of Kitab fi ‘Ilm an-Nushshab, ‘ A Book on the Knowledge of Arrows,’ or Khulasa, ‘‘The Essence.’ This work is a late 14th century archery manual written in Mamluk-Kipchak Turkic and composed during the Mamluk reign in Egypt. It is the earliest archery manual written in Turkish. This edition is based on the only complete existing manuscript of the work, that is preserved in the Istanbul Beyazit Library (Veliyuddin Ef. No. 3176). |
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Dictionary of the Turkic Languages: Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, Uzbek
With Zhoumagaly Abuov, Nasir Kambarov, and Youssef Azemoun
ISBN: 0415160472
Published: 1999 (first edition 1996) Routledge
A multi-language dictionary covering the eight major Turkic languages, which are Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, and Uzbek. |
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Uygur Atasözleri ve Deyimleri (Uighur Proverbs and Idioms)
Published 1992, Istanbul: Doğu Türkistan Vakfı Yayınları.
Book: U.S. $15.00
The first extensive collection and study, in Turkish, of modern Uighur proverbs. This work includes more than 2500 Uighur proverbs and idioms. Majority of Uighurs live in the Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region of China today, and they speak a Turkic language that is related to other Turkic languages, such as Modern Turkish, Uzbek, and Kazakh. |
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Colloquial Azerbaijani
(Book/Cassette Course)
ISBN: 0884327884
Published 1994
Guilford CN: Audio-Forum, Division of Jeffrey-Norton Publishers
An audio language course including a textbook and 3 audio cassettes. |
Colloquial Kazakh
(Book/Cassette Course)
With Zhoumagaly Abuov
Published 1994
Guilford CN: Audio-Forum, Division of Jeffrey-Norton Publishers
An audio language course including a textbook and 3 audio cassettes. |
Colloquial Uzbek
(Book/Cassette Course)
ISBN: 0884327434>
Published 1993
Guilford CN: Audio-Forum, Division of Jeffrey-Norton Publishers
An audio language course including a textbook and 3 audio cassettes.
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Munyatu’l-Ghuzat, A 14th-Century Mamluk-Kipchak Military Treatise
Sources of Oriental Languages & Literatures 13
Published 1989, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
An English edition of Munyatu’l-Ghuzat, ‘Wish of the Warriors of the Faith,’ a 14th century military treatise written in Mamluk-Kipchak Turkic and composed during the Mamluk reign in Egypt. This edition is based on the only existing manuscript of the work, that is preserved in the library of the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul (Section: Ahmed III, No. 3468). |
Dr. Kurtuluş Öztopçu is currently retired from teaching. For many years, he taught various courses related to Turkic languages at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, UCLA and UC Berkeley. He is the author of several scholarly books and articles all relating to Turkic languages, including Dictionary of the Turkic Languages and Elementary Azerbaijani.