F. Tulga Ocak Explained

Birth Date:14 May 1946
Birth Place:Gaziantep, Turkey
Death Place:Ankara
Resting Place:Ankara
Citizenship:Turkey
Nationality:Turkish
Fields:Divan poetry
Workplaces:Hacettepe University
Alma Mater:Ankara University
Tehran University
Doctoral Advisor:Mehdi Mohaghegh
Known For:Classical Turkish poetry
Nef'i

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]

Early life and education

Ocak was born on 14 May 1946 in Gaziantep. She is the daughter of Ali Kemal Ocak (1911-1964),[2] a member of the Turkish parliament for Democrat Party from Gaziantep for three terms between 1950 and 1960[3] 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.[4] Her undergraduate thesis is about the divan of Selanikli Esat.[4] 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. 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.[5] [6] [7]

Career

Ocak was a faculty member in the department of Turkish language and literature at Hacettepe University until May 2013.[8] She was among the early members of the department.[9] In 1980, she became associate professor and her study for the title was entitled Nef'i and his Turkish divan.[10] She became professor in 1988. In 1991, she was appointed first vice rector of Ahmet Yesevi University in Kazakhstan.[11] She was the head of the department of Turkish language and literature at Hacettepe University from 2005 to 2009.[12]

Work

Ocak analysed poems and divan of Nef'i, a major poet in Ottoman poetry.[13] [14] [15] She also published articles about other divan poets, including Sultan Veled.[16] [17] She is the coeditor of Ölümünün üçyüzellinci yılında Nef'î (1991) which is concerned with the works of Nef'i.[18] She is the editor of the second edition of Modern Bilimin Doğuşunda Bizans'ın Etkisi Var mıdır?, a book by Sevim Tekeli.[19] She participated in various conferences on Persian literature last of which was in Tehran in May 2010.[20]

Her pupils and colleagues published a book for her in 2013, entitled Prof. Dr. F. Tulga Ocak'a Armağan.[21] [22]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yitirdiklerimiz - Prof. Dr. F. Tulga Ocak. Türk Dili. 16 January 2020 . Ankara. Turkish. December 2019.
  2. Book: Türkischer Biographischer Index / Turkish Biographical Index. January 2004. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-096577-3. 751.
  3. Web site: TBMM Album. Turkish Grand National Assembly. 26 November 2013.
  4. Ismail Ünver. Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Çalışmaları. Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi.
  5. Book: Aḥvāl va ās̲ār va taḥlīl-i ashʻār-i dīvān-i Fārsī-i Aḥmad Dāʻī. WorldCat. 123943184 . 26 November 2013.
  6. Web site: Ocak, Fatma Tulga. WorldCat Identities. 26 November 2013.
  7. Book: Fatma Tulga Ocak. احوال و آثار و تحلیل اشعار دیوان فارسی احمد داعی. 2006. انجمن آثار و مفاخر فرهنگی. 9789645280091 .
  8. Web site: Faculty members. Hacettepe University. 26 November 2013.
  9. News: Şükrü Elçin . 27 November 2013 . Yeniçağ. October 2008. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203071811/http://www.yenicaggazetesi.com.tr/print.php?hit=5840&status=2 . 3 December 2013. dmy.
  10. Berrin Akalın. Aŧŧār, Hayatı, Eserleri ve Eserleriyle İlgili Çalışmalar. International Journal of Central Asian Studies. 2009. 13.
  11. Web site: Ahmet Yesevi University . Yurtdışı Eğitim Merkezi. 26 November 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203023228/http://www.yurtdisiegitimmerkezi.net/yurtdisiegitim/kazakistandaegitim/universiteler/ahmet_yesevi_universitesi.html. 3 December 2013. dmy.
  12. Web site: History. Department of Turkish language and literature. 27 November 2013.
  13. Muhsin Macit. Söz meydanının usta binicisi:Nef'i. Dil ve Edebiyat. https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224538/http://www.tded.org.tr/images/logo/x/nefi.pdf. 2 December 2013. dead.
  14. Web site: Tulga Ocak. Nef'i için söylenmiş bir hiciv beyti üzerine. Arastirmax. 27 November 2013.
  15. Tulga Ocak. Ölümünün 350. yılında Nef'i. HU Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi. 1985. 3. 2.
  16. Web site: Hayati Kuzucu. Milli Tarihimiz ve Kimliğimiz. Burdur Tarihi. 26 November 2013.
  17. Book: Formats and editions. WorldCat. 282112463 . 26 November 2013.
  18. Book: Mehmed Çavuşoğlu. Fatma Tulga Ocak. İsmail Ünver. Ölümünün üçyüzellinci yılında Nef'î. 1991. Atatürk Kültür, Dil, ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu. 978-975-16-0310-4.
  19. Web site: S. Dilek Yalçın Çelik. Modern Bilimin Doğuşunda Bizans'ın Etkisi Var mıdır? Sevim Tekeli'nin araştırması. Dag Media. 4 January 2012. 26 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225123/http://www.dagmedya.net/2012/01/04/modern-bilimin-dogusunda-bizansin-etkisi-var-midir-sevim-tekelinin-arastirmasi/. 2 December 2013. dead.
  20. News: Tahran, Türk Edebiyatı ile buluşuyor. 27 November 2013. Yeni Safak. 1 May 2010.
  21. Web site: Prof. Dr. F. Tulga Ocak'a Armağan. Hacettepe University. 22 June 2016. Ankara. 2013.
  22. Web site: Prof. Dr. Umay Türkeş-Günay . Yödak. 26 November 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203000328/http://www.ncyodak.eu/turkce/yonetim/Umay%20Gunay%20Ozgecmis.pdf . 3 December 2013. dmy.