Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
HUK0209		Ottoman Turkish I	2/0/0	DE	Turkish	2

Course Goals	Legal parlance is very difficult in Turkey. Existence of plentiful words and phrases in Arabic and Farsi make it very difficult to understand. It is necessary to teach Ottoman Turkish in order to eliminate this difficulty, and to make the legal texts, terms and decisions and precedents of the Ottoman era understandable, and also to decode certificates, documents, title deeds, lease contracts, bonds, contracts of association, equities, registry informations, discharge documents, reports, commercial vouchers, invoices etc. from the Ottoman era and from the early years of the republic. Students who took this course, have the ability to understand the text at hand containing legal words and phrases in Arabic and Farsi. They also realize the legal matters, issues and solutions of old times.
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Teaching Methods and Techniques	-Lecturing, question-answer, practice
Principle Sources	Prof. Dr. Hayati Develi, Osmanlı Türkçesi Kılavuzu i , kesit yayınları, İstanbul 2010. Mustafa Kemal   Atatürk, Nutuk, 1,2,3, Ankara 1970
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Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	What is Ottoman Turkish? The place of Ottoman Turkish in law education	Verbal lecture
2. Week	Reading texts in Ottoman Turkish written with Latin characters and some notices	Verbal lecture
3. Week	Possessive constructions in Farsi	Verbal lecture
4. Week	Possessive constructions in Arabic	Verbal lecture
5. Week	Negation particles in Arabic and Farsi	Verbal lecture
6. Week	Plural suffixes. Plurality in Arabic (male, female), Plurality in Farsi.	Verbal lecture
7. Week	Some co-operative functions in Arabic	Verbal lecture
8. Week	Midterm Exam	Verbal lecture
9. Week	Some patterns in Arabic: Reflexivity, passivity.	Verbal lecture
10. Week	Some patterns in Arabic: Causativization	Verbal lecture
11. Week	Examining texts in Ottoman Turkish written with Latin characters 1	Verbal lecture
12. Week	Examining texts in Ottoman Turkish written with Latin characters 2	Verbal lecture
13. Week	Examining texts in Ottoman Turkish written with Latin characters 3	Verbal lecture
14. Week	Examining texts in Ottoman Turkish written with Latin characters 5	Verbal lecture
15. Week	Final
16. Week	Final
17. Week	Final

Assessments
Evaluation tools	Quantity	Weight(%)
Midterm(s)	1	30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations	1	10
Final Exam	1	60

Program Outcomes PO-1 1. Have the ability to reach and evaluate information sources PO-2 2. Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data PO-3 3. Have historical knowledge enabling to interpret modern law achievements PO-4 4. Have the ability to use Turkish efficiently verbally and in written PO-5 5. Have the ability to follow up professional literature at least in a foreign language PO-6 6. Have acquired professional and ethical sense of responsibility PO-7 7. Have the ability to use vocational information technologies efficiently for solution of legal problems PO-8 8. Have the ability to apply information acquired to solution of a concrete case PO-9 9. Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship among natural legal persons and have the ability to interpret such rules PO-10 10. Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship between individual and state and have the ability to interpret such rules PO-11 11. Have the ability to practice the profession as a lawyer who adopts universal principles of law PO-12 12. Have full knowledge of basic concepts and rules regarding structure and relationship manners of international community; have the ability to interpret and discuss about the foregoing PO-13 13. Have basic knowledge enabling to evaluate international community’s common issues and their possible solutions PO-14 14. Have knowledge enabling to apply to human rights bodies having a supranational judicial quality and to follow up the process PO-15 15. Have knowledge on the European Union (EU) 'Acquis Communautaire' and operation of the EU institutions PO-16 16. Have a world view enabling to question, criticize and develop law in direction with needs of humanity PO-17 17. Have knowledge on historical development process of jurisprudence and judicial systems PO-18 18. Have the ability to solve actual legal problems within the frame of contemporary legal approaches PO-19 19. Be at the level of understanding and knowledge which reflects all qualities in the best way required by the profession on national and international scale PO-20 20. Have full knowledge of legal arrangements and practices regarding economic and financial mechanisms PO-21 21. Have knowledge on historical development of rights of individuals and societies and on basic texts adopted during the process PO-22 22. Have the ability to express himself individually and before a group PO-23 23. Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data PO-24 24. Have the ability to follow up regulations and legal quests in order to meet new needs appeared within the frame of relationships between individuals PO-25 25. Have the ability to cooperate by implementing activities during courses, hypothetical law suits and judicial studies and other vocational and academic visits PO-26 26. Have the ability to understand and handle national and international dimensions of law, jurisprudence and practices by means of follow up PO-27 27. Have knowledge of international judicial bodies and their ways of operation

Learning Outcomes LO-1 Learns the historical language of Turkish. LO-2 Comprehends legal texts easier with the help of Ottoman Turkish. LO-3 Learns the terms and subjects of former law. Comprehends the solutions of problems. LO-4 Have the ability to read and understand the documents written in Ottoman Turkish. LO-5 Realizes the differences and similarities between the former sense of law and system and today’s sense of law and system.

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