Legal parlance is very difficult in Turkey. Existence of plentiful words and phrases in Arabic and Farsi makes 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 taking 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.
Prerequisite(s)
None
Corequisite(s)
None
Special Requisite(s)
The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
-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
Ottoman alphabet
Verbal lecture
2. Week
Ottoman alphabet and characteristics 1
Verbal lecture
3. Week
Ottoman alphabet and characteristics 2
Verbal lecture
4. Week
Conjuntion properties of letters and examples 1
Verbal lecture
5. Week
Conjuntion properties of letters and examples 2
Verbal lecture
6. Week
Simple word reading exercise 1
Verbal lecture
7. Week
Simple word reading exercise 2
Verbal lecture
8. Week
Midterm Exam
Verbal lecture
9. Week
Farsça tamlamalar ve çeşitleri Propositional phrases in Farsi and its varieties
Verbal lecture
10. Week
Propositional phrases in Arabic and its varieties
Verbal lecture
11. Week
Plurality rule in Farsi
Verbal lecture
12. Week
Plurality rule in Arabic (male, female)
Verbal lecture
13. Week
Ottoman Turkish short text reading exercise 1
Verbal lecture
14. Week
Ottoman Turkish short text reading exercise 2
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
Have the ability to reach and evaluate information sources;
PO-2
Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-3
Have historical knowledge enabling to interpret modern law achievements;
PO-4
Have the ability to use Turkish efficiently verbally and in written;
PO-5
Have the ability to follow up professional literature at least in a foreign language;
PO-6
Have acquired professional and ethical sense of responsibility;
PO-7
Have the ability to use vocational information technologies efficiently for solution of legal problems;
PO-8
Have the ability to apply information acquired to solution of a concrete case;
PO-9
Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship among natural legal persons and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-10
Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship between individual and state and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-11
Have the ability to practice the profession as a lawyer who adopts universal principles of law;
PO-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
Have basic knowledge enabling to evaluate international community’s common issues and their possible solutions;
PO-14
Have knowledge enabling to apply to human rights bodies having a supranational judicial quality and to follow up the process;
PO-15
Have knowledge on European Union Acquis Communautaire and operation of its institutions;
PO-16
Have a world view enabling to question, criticize and develop law in direction with needs of humanity;
PO-17
Have knowledge on historical development process of jurisprudence and judicial systems;
PO-18
Have the ability to solve actual legal problems within the frame of contemporary legal approaches;
PO-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
Have full knowledge of legal arrangements and practices regarding economic and financial mechanisms;
PO-21
Have knowledge on historical development of rights of individuals and societies and on basic texts adopted during the process;
PO-22
Have the ability to express himself individually and before a group;
PO-23
Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-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
Have the ability to cooperate by implementing activities during courses, hypothetical law suits and judicial studies and other vocational and academic visits;
PO-26
Have the ability to understand and handle national and international dimensions of law, jurisprudence and practices by means of follow up;
PO-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
